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

Kim Stanley Robinson book Green Mars

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.”

Kim Stanley Robinson

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.”

Kim Stanley Robinson

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

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

Kim Stanley Robinson

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

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

Kim Stanley Robinson

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

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

Kim Stanley Robinson

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.”

Kim Stanley Robinson

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

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

Kim Stanley Robinson

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

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

Kim Stanley Robinson

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

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

Kim Stanley Robinson

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)

“Beauty was the promise of happiness, not happiness itself; and the anticipated world was often more rich than anything real.”

Kim Stanley Robinson

Source: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 2, “The Voyage Out” (p. 85)

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

Kim Stanley Robinson

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

“You just don’t have faith!”

Kim Stanley Robinson

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.”

Kim Stanley Robinson

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