Philip K. Dick Quotes
Where there's dope, there's hope!
Dick, Philip K. A Scanner Darkly. Doubleday, 1977.
With this type of rhetoric (see Quotation 643709) for another example), he gave the green light to local law enforcement agencies and vigilante groups, who in the first few weeks of his term of office, murdered without trial or any due process 1500 assumed drug dealers and drug users. In some cases feuds and scores were settled by the false accusation of a rival or enemy, and since there was no trial or way for the accused to even try and prove he was not a drug addict of dealer, a number of totally innocent people were victims of extra judicial killings encouraged by the President of the Country.
Philip Kindred Dick was an American writer known for his work in science fiction. He wrote 44 published novels and approximately 121 short stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines during his lifetime. His fiction explored varied philosophical and social themes, and featured recurrent elements such as alternate realities, simulacra, monopolistic corporations, drug abuse, authoritarian governments, and altered states of consciousness. His work was concerned with questions surrounding the nature of reality, perception, human nature, and identity.
