Leigh Brackett, The Long Tomorrow
"The cities were sucking all the life of the country into themselves and destroying it. Men were no longer individuals but units in a vast machine, all cut to one pattern, with the same tastes and ideas, the same mass-produced education that did not educate but only pasted a veneer of catchwords over ignorance. Why do you want to bring that back?"
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"The cities were sucking all the life of the country into themselves and destroying it. Men were no longer individuals but units in a vast machine, all cut to one pattern, with the same tastes and ideas, the same mass-produced education that did not educate but only pasted a veneer of catchwords over ignorance. Why do you want to bring that back?"
Leigh Brackett, The Long Tomorrow
"(I)f you're not honest with yourself, life will never be honest with you."
Leigh Brackett, The Long Tomorrow
"There's never been an act done since the beginning, from a kid stealing candy to a dictator committing genocide, that the person doing it didn't think he was fully justified. That's a mental trick called rationalizing, and it's done the human race more harm than anything else you can name."
Leigh Brackett, The Long Tomorrow
"You canβt destroy knowledge. You can stamp it under and burn it up and forbid it to be, but somewhere it will survive."
Leigh Brackett, The Long Tomorrow
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