Quotes from book
Richter 10

Name: Richter 10
Author: Arthur C. Clarke

“That’s what I think they’re doing, eating themselves alive. They murder in the name of God and blindly destroy the very ecosystem that sustains them.”

Arthur C. Clarke book Richter 10

“People are people.” Bert shrugged.
“What you’re really saying is that people are animals,” Crane replied. “And I say to you, it doesn’t have to be that way. We can make a civilization, a real civilization, built on real understanding of ourselves and our universe.”
Source: 1990s, Richter 10 (1996), Chapter 20, “Shimani-Gashi” (p. 362)

“So many people did it that it was no longer an obsession; it was a demographic.”

Arthur C. Clarke book Richter 10

Source: 1990s, Richter 10 (1996), Chapter 4, “Geomorphological Processes” (p. 77)

“Years compress like fault lines in the mind. While everything else changes, the mind remembers exactly what it wants to remember. A decade can be lost and a year seem like forever.”

Arthur C. Clarke book Richter 10

Source: 1990s, Richter 10 (1996), Chapter 22, “Richter Ten” (p. 386)

“Thinkers prepare the revolution; bandits carry it out.”

Arthur C. Clarke book Richter 10

Source: 1990s, Richter 10 (1996), Chapter 18, “Hidden Faults” (p. 327)

“Man's bodily functions moved only toward death, but the mind could continue to enrich itself even as everything else embraced entropy.”

Arthur C. Clarke book Richter 10

Source: 1990s, Richter 10 (1996), Chapter 18, “Hidden Faults” (p. 323)