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Quotes from The Stone That Never Came Down — John Brunner

1934–1995 England

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Never marry a good church-going girl, Billy! They can always find moral justifications for anything they feel like doing, no matter how it hurts other people.

The Stone That Never Came Down (1973)

Of course, lately he has been very upset about the state of the world. But isn’t everybody who bothers to pay attention?

The Stone That Never Came Down (1973)

We are agreed that before we kill each other we should better serve mankind by killing those who order us to kill each other.

The Stone That Never Came Down (1973)

He was wondering what society would have been like if we’d socialised cannabis instead of dangerous drugs like alcohol and religion.

The Stone That Never Came Down (1973)

If you kill a dozen people by sniping at them from a roof-top, you’re a criminal. Unless you had a uniform on. Then you get a medal.

The Stone That Never Came Down (1973)

How do you get away with it? Above all, how do you persuade people to risk their lives in order to kill total strangers whom they know almost literally nothing about? Why, the answer’s simple. You lie to them!

The Stone That Never Came Down (1973)

Are we not natural creatures? Are we not evolved, too? Surely all the lessons we’ve learned in the past century come to a single point: we have to stop thinking of ourselves as somehow apart from nature, and recognise that we’re inseparable from it.

The Stone That Never Came Down (1973)

He said—let me get this right—he said that among the chief reasons we can’t cope with the consequence of our own ingenuity is that whenever a genuinely open-minded teacher tries to pass that attitude on to his pupils, the entrenched authorities grow frightened and shut his mouth.

The Stone That Never Came Down (1973)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Brunner (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.