“But it is better to be destroyed on strange frontiers than to live in a prison of ignorance and fear.”
Sea-horse in the Sky (1969)
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British writer 1926–1982Related quotes
“It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.”
“The greatest prison people live in is the fear of what other people think.”
Variant: The greatest prison people live in is the fear of what other people think.
“649. A beane in liberty is better than a comfit in prison.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear.”
Right Where You Are Sitting Now: Further Tales of the Illuminati. Berkeley, CA: Ronin Pub., 1993. p. 144. http://books.google.com/books?id=ee8W8jQIQBQC&pg=PA144
Context: We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear. The government has been paying farmers not to grow food for fifty years--while millions starve. Labor unions, business and government conspire to hold back the Microprocessor Revolution--because none of them know how to deal with the massive unemployment it will cause. (Fuller's books could tell them.) The utilities advertise continually that "solar power is at least forty years in the future" when my friend Karl Hess, and hundreds of others, already live in largely solar-powered houses. These propaganda advertisements are just a delaying action, because the utilities still haven't figured out how to put a meter between us and the sun.
“Better be mute, than dispute with the Ignorant.”
The Sayings of the Wise (1555)