The Sheep Look Up

by John Brunner

Praise be, if Anyone is listening, for those who struggle to save us from the consequences of our own mad cleverness.

You don’t serve your country by sweeping unpleasant facts under the carpet.

“I don’t see why we shouldn’t improve on nature!” Mr. Bamberley had chuckled. Hugh had kept his counter to himself: “So what has to happen before you realize you haven’t?”

“Isn’t the moral of the twentieth century that we are crazy?”

“I am a man,” he had said many times during his moment of fame. “I am as guilty as you, and you are as guilty as me. We can repent together, or we can die together; it must be our joint decision.”

if war is hell, so is peace.

You can’t blame the people who can’t hear the warnings; you have to blame the ones who can, and who ignore them.