The Long Tomorrow
Leigh Brackett
Top 10 Best Quotes
“There's never been an act done since the beginning, from a kid stealing candy to a dictator committing genocide, that the person doing it didn't think he was fully justified. That's a mental trick called rationalizing, and it's done the human race more harm than anything else you can name.”
“You can’t destroy knowledge. You can stamp it under and burn it up and forbid it to be, but somewhere it will survive.”
“The cities were sucking all the life of the country into themselves and destroying it. Men were no longer individuals but units in a vast machine, all cut to one pattern, with the same tastes and ideas, the same mass-produced education that did not educate but only pasted a veneer of catchwords over ignorance. Why do you want to bring that back?”
“No city, no town, no community of more than one thousand people or two hundred buildings to the square mile, shall be built or permitted to exist anywhere in the United States of America.”
“If you're not honest with yourself, life will never be honest with you.”
“As long as there are crazed or crafty leaders to play on old fears, a mob will turn cruel.”
“The cities were sucking all the life of the country into themselves and destroying it. Men were no longer individuals, but units in a vast machine, all cut to one pattern, with the same tastes and ideas, the same mass-produced education that did not educate but only pasted a veneer of catchwords over ignorance.”
“Len Colter sat in the shade under the wall of the horse barn, eating pone and sweet butter and contemplating a sin.”
“Whether it was the stimulus of the radio, or simply that he was growing up, or both, he saw everything about him in a new way, as though he had managed to get a little distance off so that his sight wasn’t blurred by being too close.”
“He said they were afraid, and that fear makes stupid people do wicked things,”
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Book Keywords:
power, mass-production, knowledge, education, city, uniformity, conservatism, cities, honesty, life, rationalization, demagoguery, conformity, evil, demagogue
