What hurt him most of all, made him feel like a sick child aware of terrible wrongness and yet incapable of explaining it to anyone who might help, was that in spite of the evidence around them, in spite of what their eyes and ears reported-and sometimes their flesh, from bruises, stab wounds, racking coughs, weeping sores-these people believed their way of life was the best in the world, and were prepared to export it at the point of a gun. John Brunner
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More Quotes By John Brunner
  1. There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better.

  2. 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.

  3. It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it was on your side and not theirs.

  4. You will die, and I, and all we can create–why not a city? But if there is one thing that deserves to be immortal, it is knowledge.

  5. It's supposed to be automatic, but actually you have to push this button.

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