From Total Recall:
COHAAGEN: Relax, Quaid. You’ll like being Hauser.
QUAID: The guy’s a fucking asshole!
From The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester:
“No. I mean something else. Three or four hundred years ago, cops used to catch people like Reich just to kill them. Capital punishment, they called it.”
“You’re kidding.”
“Scout’s honor.”
“But it doesn’t make sense. If a man’s got the talent and guts to buck society, he’s obviously above average. You want to hold on to him. You straighten him out and turn him into a plus value. Why throw him away? Do that enough and all you’ve got left are the sheep.”
“I don’t know. Maybe in those days they wanted sheep.”
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