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“A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own.”
― The Lathe of Heaven
― The Lathe of Heaven
“What we call 'evil' is produced by civilization, its constraints and repressions, deforming the spontaneous, free self-expression of the personality.”
― The Lathe of Heaven
― The Lathe of Heaven
“He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in.”
― The Lathe of Heaven
― The Lathe of Heaven
“He was not interested in detached knowledge, science for science's sake: there was no use learning anything if it was of no use. Relevance was his touchstone.”
― The Lathe of Heaven
― The Lathe of Heaven
“But I guess I can't, or my subconscious can't, even imagine a warless world. The best it can do is substitute one kind of war for another. You said, no killing of humans by other humans. So I dreamed up the Aliens. Your own ideas are sane and rational, but this is my unconscious you're trying to use, not my rational mind. Maybe rationally I could conceive of the human species not trying to kill each other off by nations, in fact rationally it's easier to conceive than the motives of war. But you're handling something outside reason. You're trying to reach progressive, humanitarian goals with a tool that isn't suited to the job. Who has humanitarian dreams?”
― The Lathe of Heaven
― The Lathe of Heaven
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