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Quotes from Gibbon's Decline & Fall — Sheri S. Tepper

1929–2016 United States

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Fear needn’t be grounded in fact to cause problems.

Gibbon's Decline & Fall (1996)

We believe that nothing worthy of our worship would want our worship.

Gibbon's Decline & Fall (1996)

She needed more sleep and less aggravation.

Gibbon's Decline & Fall (1996)

What’s coming is reality. Politics has nothing to do with reality!

Gibbon's Decline & Fall (1996)

Infanticide and infant neglect exist in inverse ratio to the accessibility of abortion services.

Gibbon's Decline & Fall (1996)

One of the difficulties of being the good guys is that even open societies have to have secret police, and secret police turn toward repression as a compass points north.

Gibbon's Decline & Fall (1996)

Here we are after a couple million years of natural selection has produced a race that overpopulates and makes war and dominates and rapes, and you want to know about wisdom! Natural selection doesn’t select for wisdom!

Gibbon's Decline & Fall (1996)

They looked like men. That was the trouble with devils, Carolyn thought. Too often they looked like men.

Gibbon's Decline & Fall (1996)

“Words? Not really. Mankind is a good word.” She set down her glass with a thump. “Or humankind. I’m afraid we’ve spent a lot of feminist energy on meaningless symbols rather than essential functions.”

Gibbon's Decline & Fall (1996)

The boys attend the Institute. I saw where they keep the girls. They are not taught anything. They are merely fed, bathed, given exercise, raised so until puberty, at which time they are culled. The enemy does not want either rebellion or thought bred into his followers, so any who show signs of independence or unusual intelligence are culled.

Gibbon's Decline & Fall (1996)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Sheri S. Tepper (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.