Michael Crichton Quotes about Fear

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Human beings never think for themselves. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told - and become upset if they are exposed to any different view. The characteristic human trait is not

Human beings never think for themselves. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told - and become upset if they are exposed to any different view. The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.

Michael Crichton

Fear, Thinking, Self

"The Lost World". Book by Michael Crichton, 1995.

Social control is best managed through fear.

Michael Crichton

Fear, Social, Social Control

It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.

Michael Crichton

Inspirational, Death, Fear

We live in a world of frightful givens. It is given that you will behave like this, given that you will care about that. No one thinks about the givens. Isn't it amazing? In the information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought.

Michael Crichton

Fear, Thinking, World

Michael Crichton (1997). “Michael Crichton's Jurassic World”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

Each person bears a fear which is special to him. One man fears a close space and another man fears drowning; each laughs at the other and calls him stupid. Thus fear is only a preference, to be counted the same as the preference for one woman or another, or mutton for pig, or cabbage for onion.

Michael Crichton

Fear, Stupid, Men

Michael Crichton (1997). “The 13th Warrior.: The Manuscript of Ibn Fadlan, Relating His Experiences with the Northmen in A.D. 922.”