"Extremism. It is an almost infallible sign —……" — John Brunner
"Extremism. It is an almost infallible sign — a kind of death-rattle — when a human institution is forced by its members into stressing those and only those factors which are identificatory, at the expense of others which it necessarily shares with competing institutions because human beings belong to all of them."
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John Brunner
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18 Quotes by John Brunner
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What in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a…
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To go faster you must slow down.
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We fret about how to keep going the same old way when we should be casting around for another way…
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After all, the rich get richer and the poor get children. Which is okay so long as lots of them…
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If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.
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It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it was on…
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Like living creatures, automobiles expired when their environment became saturated with their own excreta. We ourselves are living creatures. We…
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Christ, what an imagination I've got!
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"Pay him what was promised", said the caliph. "And put out his eyes."
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First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then ...? Then you serve machines.
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As its best, SF is the medium in which our miserable certainty that tomorrow will be different from today in…
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It's supposed to be automatic, but actually you have to push this button.
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