Damon Knight: Likeness

Damon Knight was American science fiction writer, editor and critic. Explore interesting quotes on likeness.
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“No progress, either moral or material, can be made in a world which is frozen, like ours, into a rigid mold of suppression of liberties.”

Damon Knight book A for Anything

Source: A for Anything (1959), Chapter 10 (p. 120)

World

“Voluntary birth control methods only work on the people who choose to use ’em. A population check that doesn’t work on everybody doesn’t work at all, because it simply breeds out the ones who use it. The only population check that really works is one that affects everybody, like a limit of space or food.”

Damon Knight book A for Anything

Source: A for Anything (1959), Chapter 10 (p. 122)

People , Food , Birth

“A society that put more emphasis on birth than ability was likely to breed ability out of its ruling class.”

Damon Knight book A for Anything

Source: A for Anything (1959), Chapter 19 (p. 190)

Birth