One might as well claim that the tide which rubs pebbles smooth on a beach is doing the pebbles a service because being round is prettier than being … - John Brunner

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

Watching their sets in a kind of trance were people in Mexico, people in France. They don't chase Jones but the dreams are the same — Mr. and Mrs. Everywhere, that's the right name! Herr und Frau Uberall or les Partout, A gadget on the set makes them look like you. <p> When the Everywhere couple crack a joke It's laughed at by all right-thinking folk. When the Everywhere couple adopt a pose It's the with-it view as everyone knows. It may be a rumor or it may be true But a gadget on the set has it said by you! <p> "What do you think about Yatakang?" "I think the same as the Everywhere gang." "What do you think of Beninia then?" "The Everywheres will tell me but I don't know when." Whatever my country and whatever my name A gadget on the set makes me think the same.

HIPCRIME You committed one when you opened this book. Keep it up. It's our only hope.