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It’s okay to be a responsible member of society if only you know what you’re going to be held responsible for.

— John Brunner The Jagged Orbit (1969)

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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.

Stand on Zanzibar (1968)

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.

Stand on Zanzibar (1968)

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

Quicksand (1967)

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