Kim Stanley Robinson quotes - page 2

A change in the form of government, why should that make a difference in the way he lived? (Kim Stanley Robinson)
Could politics ever be anything but politics, practical, cynical, compromised, ugly? View quote
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Power is like matter, it has gravity, it clumps and then starts to draw more into itself. View quote
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But one had to trust instruments over instincts, that was science. View quote
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Every generation is its own secret society. View quote
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Conspiracy theory was tremendously popular, always and forever. People wanted such catastrophes to mean something more than mere individual madness, and so the hunt was on. View quote
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Master and slave wear the yoke together. Anarchy is the only true freedom. View quote
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How was it that destruction could be so beautiful? Was there something in the scale of it? Was there some shadow in people, lusting for it? Or was it just a coincidental combination of the elements, the final proof that beauty has no moral dimension? View quote
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Some of them defined ideology as an imaginary relationship to a real situation. View quote
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In games there are rules, but in life the rules keep changing. View quote
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Money equals power; power makes the law; and law makes government. (Kim Stanley Robinson)
You can't make love to your fame. Even though some people try. View quote
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Very little detective work, he was noticing, could be accomplished before a crime occurred. View quote
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What kind of story am I going to give them next? Because that's what we are to other people, boy, we are their gossip. That's all civilization is, a giant mill grinding out gossip. And so I could be the story of the man who rode high and fell hard, and had his spirit broken and crawled off into a hole like a dog, to die as soon as he could manage it. Or I could be the story of a man who rode high and fell hard, and then got up defiant, and walked away in a new direction. View quote
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He often spoke aloud to himself now, or hummed, without ever noticing it, as if ignoring an old companion who always said the same things. View quote
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Science is--or should be--the greenest force of all. View quote
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They were so ignorant! Young men and women, educated very carefully to be apolitical, to be technicians who thought they disliked politics, making them putty in the hands of their rulers, just like always. It was appalling how stupid they were, really, and he could not help lashing into them. View quote
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This vain presumption, of understanding everything, can have no other basis than never understanding anything. For anyone who had experienced just once the understanding of one single thing, thus truly tasting how knowledge is accomplished, would then recognize that of the infinity of other truths, he understands nothing. View quote
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We live in a universe ruled by very few laws, but the redoubling of violence by violence is one of the main ones. View quote
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It's a sorry excuse for a government anyway. It always gets back to the same old thing, power suckers sucking power. View quote
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Anytime you have to threaten people to get them to laugh at your joke you have to consider it less than successful, okay? (Kim Stanley Robinson)
It was that sort of sleep in which you wake every hour and think to yourself that you have not been sleeping at all; you can remember dreams that are like reflections, daytime thinking slightly warped. View quote
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People in the streets, that's the only thing governments are afraid of. Well, or term limits. Or free elections! Or assassination. Or being laughed at, ah, ha-ha-ha! View quote
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We've moved beyond our ability to understand our technology. View quote
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No-living on after the memory died was mere farce, pointless and awful. View quote
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