Source: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 7, “Senzeni Na” (p. 526)
“Master and slave wear the yoke together. Anarchy is the only true freedom.”
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 1, “Areoformation” (p. 35)
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)
“In the random flux of universal contingency, nothing mattered; and yet, and yet...”
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 3, “Long Runout” (p. 125)
“But nothing lasts, not even stone, not even despair.”
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 3, “Long Runout” (p. 127)
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 4, “The Scientist as Hero” (p. 199)
“Rituals should have some unpleasantness, or you don’t appreciate them properly.”
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 6, “Tariqat” (p. 291)
“One sign of a good action is that in retrospect it appears inevitable.”
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 6, “Tariqat” (p. 296)
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 6, “Tariqat” (p. 315)
““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 7, “What Is to Be Done?” (p. 370)
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 7, “What Is to Be Done?” (p. 387)
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 7, “What Is to Be Done?” (p. 391)
“Nakedness was dangerous to the social order, she thought, because it revealed too much reality.”
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 7, “What Is to Be Done?” (p. 395)
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 8, “Social Engineering” (p. 401)
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 8, “Social Engineering” (p. 410)
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 9, “The Spur of the Moment” (p. 450)
“Every generation is its own secret society.”
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 9, “The Spur of the Moment” (p. 480)
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 10, “Phase Change” (p. 579)
“Not everyone was as good at creation as they were at complaining.”
Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 2, “Areophany” (p. 64)
