The killers are the people who are ruining the world to line their pockets, poisoning us, burying us under garbage! - John Brunner

—What was I thinking earlier about lunatics making their own version of truth? Why specify lunatics?

I never thought of asking anyone to do it for me. Something’s wrong with me. In a time of trouble should people not be able to ask help without feeling demeaned?

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.