Important Quotes
A collection of some of the key lines of the story
" All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution"
"I don't care if you're not equal to me for a while."
"If I tried to get away with it" said George, "then other people'd get away with it—and pretty soon we'd be right back to the dark ages again, with everybody competing against everybody else"
"Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else."
"[The ballerina] had to apologize at once for her voice, which was a very unfair voice for a woman to use."
"[Harrison Bergeron] is a genius and an athlete, is under-handicapped, and should be regarded as extremely dangerous"
"Gee, I could tell that one was a doozy" said Hazel. "You can say that again" said George. "Gee—" said Hazel, "I could tell that one was a doozy."
