John Brunner People Quotations

What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.

UNFAIR :; Term applied to advantages enjoyed by other people which we tried to cheat them out of and didn't manage.

How do you whip up resentment against absentee landlords and pocketers of bribes when the highest ambition of the people is either to become the former or be in a position to receive the latter?

Yes, for most people nowadays television is their only contact with the world beyond their work.

People who hate in concrete terms are dangerous. People who manage to hate only in abstracts are the ones worth having for your friends.