102 Quotes by John Brunner

UNFAIR :; Term applied to advantages enjoyed by other people which we tried to cheat them out of and didn’t manage.

It’s not because my mind is made up that I don’t want you to confuse me with any more facts. It’s because my mind isn’t made up. I already have more facts than I can cope with.

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.

I am I.” “Tat tvam asi.

You don’t have to know everything. You simply need to know where to find it when necessary.

You can’t blame the people who can’t hear the warnings; you have to blame the ones who can, and who ignore them.

Let’s all be different same as me.

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.

But the habit patterns, inevitably, had survived. To the air, with a wry grin, he murmured, “How long, O Lord? How long?” In his private estimation: not long now.