Alfred Bester - The Stars My Destination (1957)

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Damn you! Dagenham raged, Don't you realize that you can't trust people? They don't know enough for their own good.
Then let them learn or die. We're all in this together. Let's live or die together.

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We always do what's natural, only sometimes we shouldn't do it.

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The man who gives his own decisions priority over society is a criminal.

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He awoke. He was alive. He wasted no time on prayer or thanks but continued the business of survival.

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That's me, he said, motioning to the robot. That's all of us. We prattle about free will, but we're nothing but response... mechanical reaction in prescribed grooves.

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Yes, no matter how we defend ourselves against the outside we're always licked by something from the inside. There's no defense against betrayal, and we all betray ourselves.

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Millions for defense, but not one cent for survival.

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