Harrison Bergeron Technology Quotes & Sayings

To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed. — Sidney Poitier

Feeling a little bit alive is a lot better than just waiting to die. — Robert De Niro

My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted. — Walker Percy

If you gotta label me, label me proud. — Lee Brice

Back home, Huxley drew from this experience to compose a series of audacious attacks against the Romantic love of wilderness. The worship of nature, he wrote, is "a modern, artificial, and somewhat precarious invention of refined minds." Byron and Wordsworth could only rhapsodize about their love of nature because the English countryside had already been "enslaved to man." In the tropics, he observed, where forests dripped with venom and vines, Romantic poets were notably absent. Tropical peoples knew something Englishmen didn't. "Nature," Huxley wrote, "is always alien and inhuman, and occasionally diabolic." And he meant always: Even in the gentle woods of Westermain, the Romantics were naive in assuming that the environment was humane, that it would not callously snuff out their lives with a bolt of lightning or a sudden cold snap. After three days amid the Tuckamore, I was inclined to agree. — Robert Moor

But it's obvious since the beginning that wars make no sense. You kill people to tell them you want to stop killing them. — Patrick Ness