Violence: the brutish solution of the ignorant who know they could never get enough people to vote for them.
The dead hand of society’s inertia and the financial interest of the elite minority hold us back as a species. They govern us so they can continue to govern us.
Most people who have failed miserably in life itself have one last resort left available to them. They become politicians.
I’ve only been out a few days. I’d forgotten how fucking useless meat bodies are. There’s barely enough neurones to run a walking routine, let alone something complicated like tying your shoelaces up....
It was always a puzzle, given that he spent his days achieving nothing, that he had no time for anything.
He knows it never works, so why does he always go for the same type? Optimism!
During the Trinity test of the very first atom bomb, Fermi wondered if the detonation would ignite the Earth’s atmosphere. They just didn’t know, you see. We think the quantum disruption won’t propaga...
Are you sure it is trustworthy, Mellanie? I'd be dead if it wasn't.Yes, I suppose that does generate a respectable level of personal confidence.
A large part of evolution is interaction. Isolation is not evolution; it is stagnation.
Wherever you find human misery, you find lawyers, either causing it or making a profit from it.
Typical case, educated way, way beyond her IQ, with ambition stronger than ability. She’s just another cause fascist, son, and that’s the worst kind; they always know they’re right. Anyone who dissent...
Time travel is pure bullshit, impossible; nobody can defeat causality or entropy.
Thoale alone knows why suicides are so fond of jumping off cliffs and bridges; they wouldn’t if they knew what that trip’s like.
They used a bazooka to shoot the Warrior Angel, it was spectacular ineffective.
That was the trouble with freethinkers, they had overactive imaginations that made them uncertain.
Taxis are useful in this town, aren’t they? Clayton mused. So perfectly anonymous. And they all look the same.
So government did what government always does when confronted with an opposition which can’t be brought down by fair and legal means. It cheated.
Random Acts of Kindness, he said. You need some in your life. Everybody does.No, I don't have much of a rak, but hey, this is the twenty-third century, you can get anything fixed if you have enough mo...
Our society is mature. Change is instability. That is why every institution we have resists change. To maintain the status quo is our sole objective in life.
I’m impressed. That is one big mother of a tax office.’ ‘They say that the Captain has an agreement with the Skylords, that if you haven’t settled your taxes when you seek Guidance, the Skylords will...