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Kim Stanley Robinson Quotes

born 1952 United States

Kim Stanley Robinson (born 23 March 1952) is a science fiction novelist most famous for his Mars trilogy.

United States
Novelists
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Also known as: Robinson, Kim Stanley

Random Kim Stanley Robinson quote

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Some of them defined ideology as an imaginary relationship to a real situation.

Red Mars (1992)

Rituals should have some unpleasantness, or you don’t appreciate them properly.

Green Mars (1993)

It’s amazing what superstitions survive in fearful minds.

Blue Mars (1996)

What we need is equality without conformity.

Green Mars (1993)

Very hard to believe, actually; it made Sax suspicious; in physics one became immediately dubious when a situation appeared to be somehow extraordinary or unique.

Blue Mars (1996)

Revolution suspends habit as well as law. But just as nature abhors a vacuum, people abhor anarchy.

Green Mars (1993)

Most ignorance is by choice, you know, and so ignorance is very telling about what really matters to people.

Red Mars (1992)

Anyone can agree that things should be fair, and the world just. The way to get there is always the real problem.

Green Mars (1993)

You can’t make love to your fame. Even though some people try.

Red Mars (1992)

Once upon a time she had suffered under the illusion that if she only exerted herself hard enough, the world would change. Now she knew better.

Blue Mars (1996)

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.

Green Mars (1993)

And then she was tired of talk again, tired of its uselessness. It had never been any more than it was now: whispers against the great roar of the world, half-heard and less understood.

Red Mars (1992)

Consciousness is solitary. Each person lives in that bubble universe that rests under the skull, alone.

Galileo's Dream (2009)

Not everyone was as good at creation as they were at complaining.

Blue Mars (1996)

Tourism is an ugly business, it’s not fit work for human beings. It’s hosting parasites.

Blue Mars (1996)

Politics in its most common form: complaint. No one wanted to do it but everyone was happy to complain about it.

Blue Mars (1996)

Master and slave wear the yoke together. Anarchy is the only true freedom.

Green Mars (1993)

Money equals power; power makes the law; and law makes government.

Red Mars (1992)

“But that may be Freudianism.”
“In other words something like the theory of phlogiston.”
She laughed. “Exactly.”

Red Mars (1992)

In the random flux of universal contingency, nothing mattered; and yet, and yet...

Green Mars (1993)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Kim Stanley Robinson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.