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

Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 1, “Areoformation” (p. 35)

“It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on the flow of the stream.”

Source: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 6, “Guns Under the Table” (p. 461)

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

Source: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 6, “Guns Under the Table” (p. 460)

“Friendship was just diplomacy by other means, after all.”

Source: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 6, “Guns Under the Table” (p. 432)

“In games there are rules, but in life the rules keep changing.”

Source: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 6, “Guns Under the Table” (p. 431)

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

Source: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 6, “Guns Under the Table” (p. 394)

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

Source: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 5, “Falling into History” (p. 375)

“Very little detective work could be accomplished before a crime occurred.”

Source: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 5, “Falling into History” (p. 276)

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

Source: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 4, “Homesick” (p. 221)

“Being on Mars will change us in an evolutionary way.”

Arkady shook his head vehemently, causing him to spin a little in the air over the table. “No, no, no, no! History is not evolution! It is a false analogy! Evolution is a matter of environment and chance, acting over millions of years. But history is a matter of environment and choice, acting within lifetimes, and sometimes within years, or months, or days! History is Lamarckian! So that if we choose to establish certain institutions on Mars, there they will be! And if we choose others, there they will be!”
Source: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 2, “The Voyage Out” (p. 88)

“The urge to excel and the urge to lead aren’t the same. Sometimes I think they may be opposites.”

Source: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 2, “The Voyage Out” (p. 67)

“You just don’t have faith!”

Frank repeated.
”Well I hope I never get it! It’s like being hit by a hammer in the head!”
Source: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 2, “The Voyage Out” (p. 53)

“Ridiculous. But lies were what people wanted; that was politics.”

Source: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 1, “Festival Night” (p. 7)