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The important task of government, you see, is to keep conditions stable, to hold down disturbances and unrest, to maintain itself, and the best way to do that is to give everybody the opportunity to do what they want - except change things.
The lies we tell about ourselves may be more revealing than the truths we incautiously reveal.
Don't get so holy, Pearce. Life isn't holy.
Everyone is his or her own messiah.
In a universe whose size is beyond human imagining, where our world floats like a dust mote in the void of night, men have grown inconceivably lonely. We scan the time scale and the mechanisms of life itself for portents and signs of the invisible. As the only thinking mammals on the planet - perhaps the only thinking animals in the entire sidereal universe - the burden of consciousness has grown heavy upon us. We watch the stars, but the signs are uncertain. We uncover the bones of the past and seek for our origins. There is a path there, but it appears to wander. The vagaries of the road may have a meaning, however; it is thus we torture ourselves.... Loren Eiseley, 1946...
Fuck the passengers!
We must have tranquillity." "In a technological world," MacDonald said, "change is inevitable. What you must have for tranquillity is reasonable change, manageable change.
Animals fight wars; flowers practice peace.
Poverty and injustice are evils, but they are endurable evils in a world where other problems are greater. They are not endurable in a complex, technological society where cooperation is essential, where violence and rioting can destroy a city, even civilization itself.
Riley asked himself why he had ever considered space travel romantic. "Because you are a romantic," his pedia said.
