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.
People will look at you, what you’re doing, rewriting the regiment rule book, and they’ll want to do the same for themselves. That’s when you’ll start to run into resistance. That’s where the politics...
Perfection, Inigo said, is what we strive for; it is never what we should achieve. There is no such thing as utopia. Life by its nature is a struggle. Take that away and you take away any reason to ex...
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.
Politicians see conspiracies everywhere
This universe and all it is connected with will come to an end. Entropy carries us towards the inevitable omega point, that is why entropy exists.
Science your way out of this.
Secrecy is like oxygen to politicians and defense forces; there’s always got to be some of it to keep them going.
We exist to protect the majority so they can run around living their lives as decently and as best they can.
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.
Rationalize that as something else
Societies only have waste products while acquiring fresh raw material remains a cheaper option than recycling.
Some believe that we will eventually sink back to the more simple-minded creatures which we evolved out of and the planet will bring another mind forward. Isn’t that the opposite of evolution? Only fr...
Vance closed the link and stamped off to biolab-1, too furious to say anything more. He didn’t even ask the Lord for wisdom and guidance, which was remiss of him, but the Lord would understand the fra...
Start taking money away from the privileged, and they can turn just as savage as any animal that gets shoved into Philippa’s arena.
Taxis are useful in this town, aren’t they? Clayton mused. So perfectly anonymous. And they all look the same.
That was the trouble with freethinkers, they had overactive imaginations that made them uncertain.
Weapons analysis division,
That’s a huge gamble. We’re long past the time for careful certainty.
Without education and understanding, the barbarians would have outnumbered us and swarmed the city gates a long time ago.
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