John Brunner Quotes
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People who hate in concrete terms are dangerous. People who manage to hate only in abstracts are the ones worth having for your friends.
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To go faster you must slow down.
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There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better.
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If the evidence says you're wrong, you don't have the right theory. You change the theory, not the evidence.
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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.
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If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.
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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?
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You have many years to live do things you will be proud to remember when you're old.
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Love and joy are incredibly habit-forming; often a single exposure is enough to cause permanent addiction.
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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.