Top 30 Mr Brunner Quotes
#1. I have always found fact infinitely more interesting than myths and falsehoods.
John Brunner
#2. Magistrate's son and is quite concerned with appearances. She is a weekender. Mutch - Mutch is the youngest member of
Meghan Brunner
#3. The Church exists by mission as fire exists by burning.
Emil Brunner
#5. The explosion of human knowledge has accelerated to the point where even the most brilliant can't cope with it any more. Theories have rigidified into dogma just as they did in the Middle Ages. The leading experts feel obligated to protect their creed against the heretics.
John Brunner
#6. For all the claims one hears about the liberating impact of the data-net, the truth is that it's wished on most of us a brand-new reason for paranoia.
John Brunner
#7. It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it was on your side and not theirs.
John Brunner
#8. Shit, I forgot. This time of the afternoon the bar's probably shut. Half the staff has gone sick again. Mono, I think. Well, let's go look anyway; we might be lucky. We can't go up to my room
it's full of bugs.'
Which kind?'
Both.
John Brunner
#9. The Revelation of God is not a book or a doctrine, but a living Person.
Emil Brunner
#10. our threshold of survival-prone behavior is so high it takes the prospect of total extermination to activate modes of placation and compromise, may there not be other processes, equally life-preserving, which can similarly be triggered off only at a far higher level of stimulus
John Brunner
#11. The Jews deserved to die. I have no regrets. If I had the chance I would do it again.
Alois Brunner
#12. Man has one name, and many more than two natures. But the essential two are these: that he shall strive to impose order on chaos, and that he shall strive to take advantage of chaos ... A third element of man's nature is this: that he shall not understand what he is doing.
John Brunner
#14. work, whatever it must be, is the service of God and of the community and therefore the expression of man's dignity. - Emil Brunner, Gifford Lectures, 1948
Larry Niven
#15. And how do men call you?" "I have many names, but one nature. You may call me Mazda, or anything you please.
John Brunner
#16. You don't have to know everything. You simply need to know where to find it when necessary.
John Brunner
#17. Cats are solitary hunters with only the vaguest concept of hierarchy and little desire to "please" anyone but themselves
David Brunner
#18. What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life.
Emil Brunner
#19. Don't bother explaining - I've heard all the excuses and the trouble is most of them are true.
John Brunner
#20. It's a gut feeling. And when two people have the same gut feeling, you have a brand.
Robert Brunner
#21. The same computers that make it impossible for you to cheat on your income tax can ensure that the blood of your group is in the ambulance that picks you up from a car smash.
John Brunner
#22. Damn right I voted for him. But if I'd known then what I know now, I wouldn't have cast a vote - I'd have cast a brick.
John Brunner
#23. You know Chad's definition of the New Poor? People who are too far behind with time-payments on next year's model to make the down-payment on the one for the year after?
John Brunner
#24. a sneaking feeling that people are wrong when they say human beings can't keep track of the world any more, we have to leave it up to the machines.
John Brunner
#25. After all, the rich get richer and the poor get children. Which is okay so long as lots of them starve in infancy.
John Brunner
#26. The killers are the people who are ruining the world to line their pockets, poisoning us, burying us under garbage!
John Brunner
#27. But the habit patterns, inevitably, had survived. To the air, with a wry grin, he murmured, "How long, O Lord? How long?" In his private estimation: not long now.
John Brunner
#28. 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?
John Brunner
#29. We fret about how to keep going the same old way when we should be casting around for another way that's better.
John Brunner
#30. I am inexpressibly grateful that the Lord of my life has granted to me in such abundance these opportunities to take part in the life of his ecclesia and to bear witness to the Living Christ in so many places and in so many ways.
Emil Brunner
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