Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 7, “What Is to Be Done?” (p. 370)
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““Art is an optimist,” Nadia said to Maya as they walked on.
“Art is an idiot,” Maya replied.”
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 7, “What Is to Be Done?” (p. 356)
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 6, “Tariqat” (p. 315)
“One sign of a good action is that in retrospect it appears inevitable.”
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 6, “Tariqat” (p. 296)
“Rituals should have some unpleasantness, or you don’t appreciate them properly.”
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 6, “Tariqat” (p. 291)
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 4, “The Scientist as Hero” (p. 199)
“But nothing lasts, not even stone, not even despair.”
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 3, “Long Runout” (p. 127)
“In the random flux of universal contingency, nothing mattered; and yet, and yet...”
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 3, “Long Runout” (p. 125)
His listeners nodded unhappily.
“So everything is expanding. But it can’t happen in contradiction to the law of conservation of matter-energy. No matter how efficient your throughput is, you can’t get an output larger than the input.”
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 2, “The Ambassador” (pp. 76-77)
“Master and slave wear the yoke together. Anarchy is the only true freedom.”
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 1, “Areoformation” (p. 35)
Source: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 7, “Senzeni Na” (p. 526)
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)
Source: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 6, “Guns Under the Table” (p. 418)
“Money equals power; power makes the law; and law makes government.”
Source: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 6, “Guns Under the Table” (p. 394)
Source: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 5, “Falling into History” (p. 375)
Source: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 5, “Falling into History” (p. 284)
“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)
Source: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 4, “Homesick” (p. 205)
“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)
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.”
Source: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 2, “The Voyage Out” (p. 67)
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)
