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  • Like living creatures, automobiles expired when their environment became saturated with their own excreta. We ourselves are living creatures. We don't want the same to happen to us.

    John Brunner (2011). “Stand on Zanzibar”, p.13, Macmillan
  • There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better.

    Change   Two   Politics  
    John Brunner (2014). “The Shockwave Rider”, p.62, Open Road Media
  • It's supposed to be automatic but actually you have to press this button.

    "Stand on Zanzibar". Book by John Brunner, 1968.
  • What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.

    People   Want   Way  
    John Brunner (2014). “The Jagged Orbit”, p.18, Open Road Media
  • First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then ...? Then you serve machines.

    Machines   Use   Firsts  
    John Brunner (2011). “Stand on Zanzibar”, p.225, Macmillan
  • Let's all be different same as me.

    John Brunner (2014). “The Shockwave Rider”, p.87, Open Road Media
  • People who hate in concrete terms are dangerous. People who manage to hate only in abstracts are the ones worth having for your friends.

    Hate   People   Dangerous  
    John Brunner (2011). “Stand on Zanzibar”, p.207, Macmillan
  • If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.

    John Brunner (2014). “The Shockwave Rider”, p.196, Open Road Media
  • "Pay him what was promised", said the caliph. "And put out his eyes."

    Eye   Cynical   Pay  
  • You have many years to live do things you will be proud to remember when you're old.

    Years   Proud   Remember  
    John Brunner (2013). “Stand On Zanzibar”, p.272, Hachette UK
  • UNFAIR :; Term applied to advantages enjoyed by other people which we tried to cheat them out of and didn't manage.

    People   Cheat   Unfair  
    John Brunner (2011). “Stand on Zanzibar”, p.383, Macmillan
  • Don't bother explaining--I've heard all the excuses and the trouble is most of them are true.

    John Brunner (2014). “Children of the Thunder”, p.187, Open Road Media
  • Who should know better than a cosmetician that human beings are less than rational creatures?

    John Brunner (2011). “Stand on Zanzibar”, p.52, Macmillan
  • 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.

    Stress   Kind   Share  
    John Brunner (2011). “Stand on Zanzibar”, p.169, Macmillan
  • Christ, what an imagination I've got!

    John Brunner (2011). “Stand on Zanzibar”, p.333, Macmillan
  • I can't see heaven but I credit hell I live in New York so I know it well. When they shut out heaven with the Fuller Dome God gave it up and He went home.

    New York   Home   Heaven  
    John Brunner (2011). “Stand on Zanzibar”, p.112, Macmillan
  • Love and joy are incredibly habit-forming; often a single exposure is enough to cause permanent addiction.

    Addiction   Joy   Causes  
    John Brunner (2011). “Stand on Zanzibar”, p.160, Macmillan
  • It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it were on your side and not theirs.

    "The Jagged Orbit".
  • How do you whip up resentment against absentee landlords and pocketers of bribes when the highest ambition of the people is either to become the former or be in a position to receive the latter?

    John Brunner (2011). “Stand on Zanzibar”, p.107, Macmillan
  • After all, the rich get richer and the poor get children. Which is okay so long as lots of them starve in infancy.

    Children   Long   Rich  
    John Brunner (2014). “The Shockwave Rider”, p.107, Open Road Media
  • We fret about how to keep going the same old way when we should be casting around for another way that’s better.

    Way   Casting   Should  
    John Brunner (2014). “The Shockwave Rider”, p.213, Open Road Media
  • NEGRO :; Member of a subgroup of the human race who hails, or whose ancestors hailed, from a chunk of land nicknamed not by its residents Africa. Superior to the Caucasian in that negroes did not invent nuclear weapons, the automobile, Christianity, nerve gas, the concentration camp, military epidemics, or the megalopolis.

    John Brunner (2011). “Stand on Zanzibar”, p.73, Macmillan
  • For all the claims one hears about the liberating impact of the data-net, the truth is that it's wished on most of us a brand-new reason for paranoia.

    Impact   Data   Truth Is  
    John Brunner (2014). “The Shockwave Rider”, p.141, Open Road Media
  • We've been slaves to our tools since the first caveman made the first knife to help him get his supper. After that there was no going back, and we built till our machines were ten million times more powerful than ourselves. We gave ourselves cars when we might have learned to run; we made airplanes when we might have grown wings; and then the inevitable. We made a machine our God.

  • What in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?

    John Brunner (2011). “Stand on Zanzibar”, p.545, Macmillan
  • Rumors that the sun is out at Santa Ynez are without foundation," the radio said.

    John Brunner (2014). “The Sheep Look Up”, p.6, Open Road Media
  • Any society which gives lip-service to the idea of equal opportunity is going to generate jealousy of others who are better off than you are, even if the thing that's in short supply can't be carved up and shared without destroying it.

    John Brunner (2011). “Stand on Zanzibar”, p.216, Macmillan
  • If the evidence says you're wrong, you don't have the right theory. You change the theory, not the evidence.

    Theory   Evidence   Ifs  
    John Brunner (2011). “Stand on Zanzibar”, p.495, Macmillan
  • I believe in logic, the sequence of cause and effect, and in science its only begotten son our law, which was conceived by the ancient Greeks, thrived under Isaac Newton, suffered under Albert Einstein... That fragment of a 'creed for materialism' which a friend in college had once shown him rose through Donald's confused mind.

    Confused   Believe   Son  
  • I'm myself, not a label.

    Labels  
    John Brunner (2014). “The Shockwave Rider”, p.196, Open Road Media
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