Extremism. It is an almost infallible sign — a kind of death-rattle — when a human institution is forced by its members into stressing those and only those factors which are identificatory, at the expense of others which it necessarily shares with competing institutions because human beings belong to all of them.
John BrunnerIf there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.
John BrunnerDon't bother explaining--I've heard all the excuses and the trouble is most of them are true.
John BrunnerWhat people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.
John Brunner