Happiness for everyone! Free! As much happiness as you want! Everyone gather round! Plenty for everyone! No one will be forgotten! Free! Happiness! Free!

Arkady Strugatsky & Boris Strugatsky, Roadside Picnic [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library]

Hermetic quote Strugatsky Roadside Picnic happiness for everyone free as much as you want gather round plenty no one forgotten

Consider also:

  1. “Science fiction lends itself readily to imaginative subversion of any status quo. “
  2. “These reactionaries preserved their moral purity (as reactionaries so often do) by not reading, so they didn’t have to see that Soviet writers had been using science fiction for years to write with at least relative freedom from Party ideology about politics, society, and the future of mankind. “
  3. “Plenty of men—and women—have already gone where I’m going. But I’ll be the first person currently in this room to make the trip.”
  4. “In this particular lifestyle the motto is ‘Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying,’ but the dying begins almost at once, and the happiness is a memory.”
  5. “What if we were able to train ourselves to desire only things that are firmly within our control? Then, in a very real sense, we’d always get what we want, and never get what we don’t want. Our happiness would never spill, since the cup of our desires is reliable and holds firm.”