John Brunner Quotes
If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.
Quotes to Explore
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Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
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This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
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Your boss is only human and just wants the best from you.
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You are enough, which I believe is critical for any human being to get in their bones.
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Stand-up, I find it really difficult. It's not really my thing.
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I challenge anyone to tell me there isn't evil in this world.
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Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.
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In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.
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If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.
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The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could attain.
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There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.
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I haven't quite got the hang of this retirement thing.
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'Dallas' hit a chord back in the late Seventies and Eighties because it was the age of greed: here you have this unapologetic character who is mean and nasty and ruthless and does it all with an evil grin. I think people related to JR back then because we all have someone we know exactly like him. Everyone in the world knows a JR.
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Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
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The die is set, and Malcolm shall not escape, especially after such evil foolish talk about his benefactor, Elijah Muhammad. Such a man as Malcolm is worthy of death.
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It was this idea (Be nice!) that fueled liberals' rage at Reagan when he vanquished the Soviet Union with his macho 'cowboy diplomacy' that was going to get us all blown up. As the Times editorial page hysterically described Reagan's first year in office: 'Mr. Reagan looked at the world through gun sights.' Yes, he did! And now the Evil Empire is no more.
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That's how we invaded Iraq, through the fear of an 'evil empire,' and it just makes people feel like bulls with the toreadors - you see red, and you charge.
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I love him for his sake; And yet I know him a notorious liar, Think him a great way fool, solely a coward; Yet these fix'd evils sit so fit in him That they take place when virtue's steely bones Looks bleak i' th' cold wind; withal, full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.
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When I went to Moscow, I felt I was relearning Swan Lake - which was written for the Bolshoi - and being immersed in a tradition and history I had never experienced. It took a while to adjust to living there and learning the language, but now I have lots of friends. I get the best of two completely different worlds.
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I'm too disorganized.
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If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.
