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Iain Banks Quotes

Iain Banks quotes about thinking

Scottish Writer February 16, 1954 – July 9, 2013

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People can be teachers and idiots; they can be philosophers and idiots; they can be politicians and idiots... in fact I think they have to be... a genius can be an idiot. The world is largely run for and by idiots; it is no great handicap in life and in certain areas is actually a distinct advantage and even a prerequisite for advancement. Iain Banks
What do I really want? he thinks. This is, of course, an extremely good question. It was just such a pity that, life being as it tended to be, it so rarely came as part of a matched pair, with an extremely good answer.--The Steep Approach to Garbadale Iain Banks
Iain Banks quote: "Look on the happy side, think of the good things. Hadn't it..."
Look on the happy side, think of the good things. Hadn't it been clever? Yes, it had. Iain Banks
He could not believe that ordinary people in the Culture really wanted the war, no matter how they had voted. They had their communist Utopia. They were soft and pampered and indulged, and the Contact section’s evangelical materialism provided their conscience-salving good works. What more could they want? The war had to be the Mind’s idea; it was part of their clinical drive to clean up the galaxy, make it run on nice, efficient lines, without waste, injustice or suffering. The fools in the... Iain Banks
Naturally, also, both sides were convinced they had right on their side, not that either was remotely naive enough to think that had any possible bearing on the outcome whatsoever. Iain Banks
I'm too drunk to recall much of what I've said. Which, come to think of it, is probably just as well, judging by the way people who are normally quite sensible dissolve into gibbering, rude, opinionated and bombastic idiots once the alcohol molecules in their bloom-stream outnumber the neutrons, or whatever. Luckily, one only notices this if one stays sober oneself, so the solution is as pleasant (at the time, at least) as it is obvious. Iain Banks
I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese. Iain Banks
I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others. Iain Banks
Perhaps we think up our own destinies, and so in a sense deserve whatever happens to us, for not having had the wit to imagine something better. Iain Banks
Iain Banks quote: "Empathize with stupidity and you're halfway to thinking like..."
Empathize with stupidity and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot Iain Banks
Iain Banks quote: "I just think people overvalue argument because they like to..."
I just think people overvalue argument because they like to hear themselves talk. Iain Banks

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