The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.

Dangers lurk in all systems. Systems incorporate the unexamined beliefs of their creators. Adopt a system, accept its beliefs, and you help strengthen the resistance to change

Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and predator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating argument. Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity. It is self-perpetuating upon itself - a barbarous form of incest. Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action in mind.

... motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.

I am not the river I am the net.

To determine if you're human. Be silent.