Trouble with Lichen Quotes

“I'm not romancing. I'm talking about the inevitable time when, unless we do something to stop it, men will be hunting men through the ruins, for food. We're letting it drift towards that, with an evil irresponsibility, because with our ordinary short lives we shan't be here to see it. Does our generation care about the misery it is bequeathing? Not it. "That's their worry," we say. "Damn our children's children; we're all right.”
― John Wyndham, Trouble with Lichen

“My great-aunt, and other people's great-aunts, won all the rights that women need ages ago. All that's been lacking since then is the social courage to use them. My great-aunt and the rest thought that by technically defeating male privilege they'd scored a great victory. What they didn't realize is that the greatest enemies of women aren't men at all, they are women: silly women, lazy women, and smug women.”
― John Wyndham, Trouble with Lichen

“Once an idea has been planted no one can tell when and where it will stop growing.”
― John Wyndham, Trouble with Lichen

“The seeker after knowledge did not seek for himself; he was under a special Commandment: to deliver to all men whatever he might be privileged to learn.”
― John Wyndham, Trouble with Lichen

“What makes you think I want to “inspire confidence”? I am not a faith healer, or a politician. The Antigerone exists. It doesn’t depend on confidence for its results, any more than castor oil does. Whether people “believe in it”, as the phrase goes, or don’t “believe in it”, will not have the least effect on its properties. . . .”
― John Wyndham, Trouble with Lichen

“God knows what would happen to civilisation if we did things just because they were natural.”
― John Wyndham, Trouble with Lichen

“I’m talking about the inevitable time when, unless we do something to stop it, men will be hunting men through the ruins, for food. We’re letting it drift towards that, with an evil irresponsibility, because with our ordinary short lives we shan’t be here to see it. Does our generation care about the misery it is bequeathing? Not it. “That’s their worry,” we say. “Damn our children’s children; we’re all right.”
― John Wyndham, Trouble with Lichen

“[T]he purity of emotional response seemed to have been sullied by a tincture of thought.”
― John Wyndham, Trouble with Lichen

“[A] nation’s science simply has to keep up with the Jones’s these days.”
― John Wyndham, Trouble with Lichen

“Our deadliest susceptibility is conformity, and our deadliest virtue is putting up with things as they are.”
― John Wyndham, Trouble with Lichen

“lacunae”
― John Wyndham, Trouble with Lichen