Quotes from Heads — Greg Bear
1951–2022 United States
← All quotes by Greg Bear
9 quotes
The sorrow never dies; it is merely nacred by time.
Heads (1990)
There may be no such thing as prescience, but honed instincts are crucial in our game.
Heads (1990)
That’s what politics is all about—coercion and lies.
Heads (1990)
Here was a creed without a coherent philosophy—a system without a sensible metaphysic. Here was puerile hypothesis and even outright fantasy masquerading as revealed the truth.
Heads (1990)
I felt myself growing older. I didn’t see it as an improvement.
Heads (1990)
Alienation without must be accompanied by alienation within; that is the law for every social level, even individuals. To harm one’s fellows, even one’s enemies, harms you, takes away some essential element from your self-respect and self-image.
Heads (1990)
We were innocent and did not know that the price of freedom—of individuality—is attention to politics, careful planning, careful organization; philosophy is no more a barrier against political disaster than it is against plague.
Heads (1990)
“Maybe you administrators can work it all out in the council.”
You administrators. That put us in our place. Paper pushers, bureaucrats, politicians. Cut the politics. We were the ones who stood in the way of the scientist’s goal of unrestrained research and intellection.
Heads (1990)
Whom could I blame?
Ultimately, one man who had started a strangely secular church, attracting people good and bad, faithful and cynical, starting an organization too large and too well-financed and organized to simply fade: promulgating a series of lies become sacred truths. How often had that happened in human history, and how many had suffered and died?
Heads (1990)