Quotes from book
Green Mars
"Green Mars" is a science fiction novella by the American writer Kim Stanley Robinson, first published in Asimov's Science Fiction in September 1985, eight years before his novel of the same name.The author later said that he wrote the story "mainly to stake a claim – at least a moral claim – on the name. I thought Green Mars was such a good name, such an obvious name." The story describes an expedition climbing Olympus Mons on Mars. It is set in a different fictional universe from that of the novel; it has characters which also appear in the author's short works "Exploring Fossil Canyon" and "A Martian Romance" .At the time the story was written, the latest missions to Mars were Viking 1 and Viking 2. They reached the planet in 1976.
“It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power.”
Nadia Chernyshevski
Green Mars (1993)
Coyote ("What Is to Be Done?", p. 370)
Green Mars (1993)
Context: Even if you want no state, or a minimal state, then you have to argue point by point. Especially since the minimalists want to keep the economic and police system that keeps them privileged. That's libertarians for you — anarchists who want police protection from their slaves. No! If you want to make the minimum-state case, you have to argue it from the ground up.
“You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one fucking idiot.”
Coyote
Green Mars (1993)
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 10, “Phase Change” (p. 579)
“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 9, “The Spur of the Moment” (p. 450)
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 8, “Social Engineering” (p. 410)
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 8, “Social Engineering” (p. 401)
“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 7, “What Is to Be Done?” (p. 391)
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. 370)
““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)
