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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e9a413d | is this an unforgivable invasion of privacy? Invasion of privacy it is; unforgivable ...Well, do you believe that justice shall not only be done, but shall be seen to be done? The privacy my worm is designed to invade is that privacy under whose cover justice is not than and injustice is not seen. It doesn't care whether the poker who leeched his tax-free payoff spent it on seducing little girls; it cares only thata he was rewared for commi.. | John Brunner | ||
| 7f7e543 | There was exactly one power base available to sustain the old style of government," Nick grunted. "Organized crime." " | John Brunner | ||
| fca6fb4 | I always wondered what democracy might smell like. | John Brunner | ||
| 6d4a76b | Take it for granted that the government will disregard long-term dangers-such as those affecting the environment-in order to cling to power; that the citizenry will do the same because thinking is too much like hard work; and then the handful of Cassandras are proved right, they will be held to blame and very likely stoned or shot. | John Brunner | ||
| 3fa50a0 | What a wise man can do, that can't be done by someone who's merely clever, is make a right judgement in an unprecedented situation. | John Brunner | ||
| 2906546 | And how many problems have been solved to date? | John Brunner | ||
| 2a5e95f | Men, embryonically speaking, are imperfect women, as you know. | John Brunner | ||
| 484c7f8 | The book has one of the scariest mise-en-scenes in all of science fiction: a world that is a smothering, riotous tangle of human arms and limbs. Stand on Zanzibar is an information overload on topics that sensible people would never want to learn about. Even the characters fear what the book's world is direly telling them: as the brightest among them rather pitifully remarks, "Whatever happens in present circumstances there's going to be tr.. | John Brunner | ||
| e2248e4 | They sought security by piling up more and more irrelevant weapons. | John Brunner | ||
| d55a6cd | I like you very much as a person," he said [...] "I think I'm going to like you just as much as a woman." "I hope so," she answered with equal formality. "We may have to go a lot of places together." | John Brunner | ||
| d50c4fa | It started with population. Not having a fixed breeding season was among the reasons why mankind achieved dominance; it kept our numbers topped up at an explosive rate. Past certain stage restrictive process set in: male libido is reduced or diverted into nonfertile channels, female ovulation is irregularized and sometimes fails completely. But long before we reach that point we find the company of our fellow creatures so unbearable we reso.. | John Brunner | ||
| 96cdd89 | only delusible idiots like our current chief executive can be persuaded to don the robes of high office. Nice guys don't crave power.) | John Brunner | ||
| 97feb27 | The nation was tightly webbed in a net of interlocking data-channels, and a time-traveler from a century ago would have been horrified by the degree to which confidential information had been rendered accessible to total strangers capable of adding two plus two. | John Brunner | ||
| d016069 | Governments rely on threat and trauma to survive. The easiest populace to rule is weak, poor, superstitious, preferably terrified of what tomorrow may bring, | John Brunner | ||
| c88bf66 | My degrees are scholarates, not mere doctorates. I've always been very proud of that. Like surgeons over in Britain, taking offense at being called Dr. So-and -so. ... But it's irrelevant, it's superfluous, it's silly! | John Brunner | ||
| 38e27ec | Out of all the calls taken, nearly half--I think they say forty-five percent--are from people who are afraid someone else knows data that they don't and is gaining an unfair advantage by it. 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. | John Brunner | ||
| 480ab0a | All right for someone earning a hundred thousand a year. For most of us even contract rates are crippling; I should know. | John Brunner | ||
| 7424043 | there's an ingrained distrust in our society of highly intelligent, highly trained, highly competent persons. One need only look at the last presidential election for proof of that. The public obviously wanted a figurehead, who'd look good and make comforting noises-- | John Brunner | ||
| 480f042 | Eight or nine men were present | John Brunner | ||
| 052d36d | we've always predicated our quotations on the assumption that life expectancy in the United States would continue to rise. But during the past three years it has in fact started to go down. | John Brunner | ||
| b9a6072 | Nickie Haflinger | John Brunner | ||
| b7cb430 | and that person might be Nickie Haflinger! | John Brunner | ||
| c6eee43 | A REMARKABLE INSTANCE ON THE PUBLIC SCALE OF THE REAL-LIFE IMPLEMENTATION OF XAVIER CONROY'S DICTUM ABOUT THE PERFECTLY DEFENDED MAN Following Paraguay's declaration of independence from Spain Dr. Francia, the dictator known as "El Supremo," adopted a simple foreign policy: no one was permitted to enter or leave the country and trade was absolutely forbidden." | John Brunner | ||
| 2590283 | I don't think of my fellow men as dangerous. I think of them as capable of occasional dangerous mistakes. | John Brunner | ||
| 08a6980 | This continent is littered coast to coast with people who were compelled to study business administration when they should have been painting murals or practicing the fiddle or digging a truck garden, and finally got their chance when it was twenty years too late to lead them anywhere. | John Brunner | ||
| d864582 | it was more a matter of time being divided up for you; if the ordained segments were too short, you got little done, while if they were too long, you got less done than you could have. | John Brunner | ||
| 750a12f | First we had the legs race. Then we had the arms race. Now we're going to have the brain race. | John Brunner | ||
| ce1f171 | presumptuous--but he's got to he with someone | David Gerrold | ||
| ddeb7b1 | I had to learn to relax, that was the problem. Other people had always unnerved me because I thought they were continually judging me. How do I look? What kind of person do I seem? Is my voice firm enough? Am I really intelligent or just pedantic? Was that joke really funny, or am I making a fool of myself? I worried about the impression I was making. If I was shy, did they think I was being aloof and call me a snob? If I tried to be friend.. | pedantic | David Gerrold | |
| 5d52998 | Dirtside males can be so stupid and arrogant sometimes. What they didn't know was that Ganny had her own set of testicles. She showed them to me once, she kept them in the cryo-freezer. | David Gerrold | ||
| d108e2d | I pushed myself off and sailed out of the room. It's hard to slam a door in free fall, don't even try. You can't even swim away with an attitude. It just doesn't work. The best you can do is swim away, scowling. | David Gerrold | ||
| 9815dc3 | I mean, I tried to change, I did, everybody tries to change, Michael. Not just the queerboys. You look in the mirror and all you see is what's wrong, I'm not _this_ enough or I'm not _that_ enough, and you spend your whole life trying to fix yourself, because you just want to be okay inside your head, you know? I know you know this, Michael, that's why you're here. You're looking for the fix. Yeah, that's why they call it a fix. Because you.. | fix life normal | David Gerrold | |
| c43e6e1 | most folks get locked into some idea of what they think gender is supposed to be about, so they put on gender-performances for each other. They act out who they they have to be. And most of the time, they end up not knowing the difference between the mask they're wearing and who they really are. Charles, a real man doesn't worry what kind of underwear he's wearing, what color it is, or if there's a little lace on the bottom, because he kn.. | David Gerrold | ||
| ab2c435 | Being at one is godlike and good, but human, too human, the mania Which insists that there is only the One, one country, one truth and one way. | Friedrich Hölderlin | ||
| e4589f3 | Las delicias de este mundo ya he gozado, Los dias de mi juventud hace tanto, !tanto!, que se desvanecieron, Abril y Mayo y Julio estan lejanos, !Ya nada soy, ya nada me complace! | Friedrich Hölderlin | ||
| 73c9d36 | Liebe Mutter! man begehrt einen tauglichen Menschen. Bin ich denn das, wenn ich ehrlich sein will? Friedrich Holderlin (26) an die Mutter | Angela Hopf Andreas Hopf | ||
| b12e3b9 | It is beautiful to unfold our souls And our short lives | Friedrich Hölderlin | ||
| 0b9025c | These fruits are ripe, dipped in fire, Cooked and sampled here on earth. | Friedrich Hölderlin | ||
| 4557aea | These fruits are ripe, dipped in fire, Cooked and tested here on earth. | Friedrich Hölderlin | ||
| c8b0923 | es sei nicht immer Tag und auch nicht Nacht. | Friedrich Hölderlin | ||
| fb22005 | Dass ein liebendes Volk in des Vaters Armen gesammelt, Menschlichfreudig, wie sonst, und Ein Geist allen gemein sei. Aber weh! es wandelt in Nacht, es wohnt, wie im Orkus, Ohne Gottliches unser Geschlecht. Ans eigene Treiben Sind sie geschmiedet allein und sich in der tosenden Werkstatt Horet jeglicher nur und viel arbeiten die Wilden Mit gewaltigem Arm, rastlos, doch immer und immer Unfruchtbar, wie die Furien, bleibt die Muhe der Armen. B.. | Friedrich Hölderlin | ||
| 1577ea0 | Halfte des Lebens Mit gelben Birnen hanget Und voll mit wilden Rosen Das Land in den See, Ihr holden Schwane, Und trunken von Kussen Tunkt ihr das Haupt Ins heilignuchterne Wasser. Weh mir, wo nehm' ich, wenn Es Winter ist, die Blumen, und wo Den Sonnenschein, Und Schatten der Erde? Die Mauern stehn | Friedrich Hölderlin | ||
| f8f960d | Wo aber die Gefahr ist, wachst, | salvation | Friedrich Hölderlin | |
| aa19fbc | Some are shy of going to the source For riches begin in the sea. | mysticism sea | Friedrich Hölderlin |