"It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but……" — John Brunner
"It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it was on your side and not theirs."
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18 Quotes by John Brunner
John Brunner has 18 quotes on this site.
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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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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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Extremism. It is an almost infallible sign — a kind of death-rattle — when a human institution is forced by…
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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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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other…
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I…
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We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily…
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The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.
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She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he…
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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
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I don't think Warren Buffett should be the treasurer or whatever. Warren Buffett's nuts! Just because he's a freaking billionaire…
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