The Shockwave Rider
John Brunner
Top 10 Best Quotes
“There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better.”
“If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.”
“Damn right I voted for him. But if I’d known then what I know now, I wouldn't have cast a vote—I’d have cast a brick.”
“After all, the rich get richer and the poor get children. Which is okay so long as lots of them starve in infancy.”
“…as though, capable themselves of suffering, they granted no reality to the suffering of others. ‘The subject exhibited a pain response.’ But not, under any circumstances, we hurt her.”
“intelligence and wisdom aren’t the same.”
“Toffler’s Law, I guess: the future arrives too soon and in the wrong order.”
“In an age when we have more choice than ever before, more mobility, more information, more opportunity to fulfill ourselves, how is it that people can prefer to be identical?”
“We fret about how to keep going the same old way when we should be casting around for another way that’s better.”
“It’s the social counterpart of natural selection. Those groups within society that craved power at the expense of everything else—morality, self-respect, honest friendship—they achieved dominance long ago. The mass of the public no longer has any contact with government; all they know is that if they step out of line they’ll be trodden on.”
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