Man has one name, and many more than two natures. But the essential two are these: that he shall strive to impose order on chaos, and that he shall strive to take advantage of chaos… A third element of man’s nature is this: that he shall not understand what he is doing.

John Brunner

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After all, the rich get richer and the poor get children. Which is okay so long as lots of them starve in infancy.

John Brunner

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…as though, capable themselves of suffering, they granted no reality to the suffering of others. ‘The subject exhibited a pain response.’ But not, under any circumstances, we hurt her.

John Brunner

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If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.

John Brunner

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