J. G. Ballard Quotes About Today

Quotes about: Today

• Human beings today are surrounded by huge institutions we can never penetrate: the City, the banking system, political and advertising conglomerates, vast entertainment enterprises. They've made themselves user friendly, but they define the tastes to which we conform. They're rather subtle, subservient tyrants, but no less sinister for that.

  J. G. Ballard

  Wall, Cities, Tyrants

  "A User's Guide to the Millennium". Book by J. G. Ballard, 1996.

• I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.

  J. G. Ballard

  Mean, Thinking, People

  "Age of unreason". Interview With Jeannette Baxter, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2004.

• Our lives today are not conducted in linear terms. They are much more quantified; a stream of random events is taking place.

  J. G. Ballard

  Today, Events, Linear

  "The New Science Fiction". "The BBC Third Programme" with George MacBeth, www.jgballard.ca. February 1, 1967.

• I think the enemy of creativity in the world today is that so much thinking is done for you.

  J. G. Ballard

  Creativity, Thinking, Enemy

  Interview with Kate Mikhail, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2002.

• I find wholly baffling the widespread belief today that the dropping of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs was an immoral act, even possibly a war crime to rank with Nazi genocide.

  J. G. Ballard

  War, Hiroshima And Nagasaki, Bombs

  "The End of My War". Sunday Times, 1995.

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