Quote by Iain Banks
Torture is such a slippery slope as soon as you allow a society or

Torture is such a slippery slope as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons. – Iain Banks

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Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities. – Iain Banks

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My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is. – Iain Banks

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Science
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I think a lot of people are frightened of technology and frightened of change, and the way to deal with something youre frightened of is to make fun of it. Thats why science fiction fans are dismissed as geeks and nerds. – Iain Banks

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The trouble with law is lawyers. – Clarence Darrow

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The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals – legal or illegal – cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives. – Salvatore J. Cordileone

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When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, its merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has any sympathy. – Alexei Navalny

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