Brian Aldiss

Quotes

1. The shuffle only demonstrated people’s fatuous belief in a political cure for a human condition.

   p. 170

2. 

   That’s one thing about these religious boys—they reckon that if they are on God’s side, then the enemy must be on the devil’s, and so they have no qualms about giving it to ’em hot and strong.

   p. 112

3. 

   To be a standard shape is not all in life. To know is also important.

4. 

   All over the world there must be far-reaching changes in animal behavior and habitat; if only one could have another life in which to chart it all....Ah, well, that’s not a fruitful thing to wish, is it?

   p. 147

5. 

   It [i.e., his look] held the fatal mixture of stupidity and cunning that lurks at the bottom of all evil.

6. 

   Relax, enjoy yourself. Have another drink. It’s patriotic to overconsume.

   p. 121

7. 

   It’s a national failing to think of politics as something that goes on in Parliament. It isn’t; it’s something that goes on inside us.

   p. 47

8. 

   What were several fewer species of animals compared with a hundred-mile advance and another medal on another general?

   p. 110

9. 

   I’ve no objection to morality, except that it’s obsolete.

   p. 122

10. 

    Man was an accident on this world or it would have been made better for him!

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