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Olaf Stapledon was a British writer and philosopher, renowned for his influential works of science fiction. His visionary novels explored the future of humanity, cosmic evolution, and the ethics of technology. He inspired generations of science fiction authors and thinkers with his imaginative scope. Here are 113 of his quotes:
In this world, as in our own, nearly all the chief means of production, nearly all the land, mines, factories, railways, ships, were controlled for private profit by a small minority of the population. These privileged individuals were able to force the masses to work for them on pain of starvation. The tragic farce inherent in such a system was already approaching. The owners directed the energy of the workers increasingly toward the production of more means of production rather than to the fulfilment of the needs of individual life. For machinery might bring profit to the owners; bread would not. With the increasing competition of machine with machine, profits declined, and therefore wages, and therefore effective demand for goods. Marketless products were destroyed, though bellies were unfed and backs unclad. Unemployment, disorder, and stern repression increased as the economic system disintegrated. A familiar story!
Olaf Stapledon
I paced up and down the little room, a queer thing happened. It was as though my wandering imagination came upon a new quality, different from all that I had ever known; yet one which was also more familiar and intimate than the smell of Plaxy in the mood of love, more piercing sweet than bitches, more hunt-worthy than the trail of a fox.
Olaf Stapledon
Olaf Stapledon
Occupation: British NovelistBorn: May 10, 1886
Died: September 6, 1950
Quotes count: 113
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