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LEADERSHIP A form of self-preservation exhibited by people with autodestructive imaginations in order to ensure that when it comes to the crunch it’ll be someone else’s bones which go crack and not their own.

— John Brunner Stand on Zanzibar (1968)

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

The Shockwave Rider (1975)

You have many years to live—do things you will be proud to remember when you're old.

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Men change their gods, and when they have changed them often enough they cease to fear their power.

The Atlantic Abomination (1960)

If you want to know what's shortly due for the guillotine look for the most obvious of all symptoms: extremism.

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—Among the other things lunatics make: their own version of truth.

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