Kim Stanley Quotes

Many of the technologies we've invented are necessary to keep 6.5 billion people alive. We can't go back from that, so we need to decarbonize really rapidly.

The invisible hand never picks up the check.

Very few people ever bother to find out what other people really think. They are willing to accept whatever they are told about anyone sufficiently distant.

It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power.

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

Every moment an epiphany arrives and cleaves the mountain asunder

It's too bad we only had the courage to live our lives fully in dreams.

Reincarnation is a story we tell; then in the end it's the story itself that is the reincarnation.

A lot of scientists act on their beliefs and so do things that look crazy to the rest of us.

It was a mistake to speak one's mind at any time, unless it perfectly matched your political purpose; and it never did.

What kind of Dv would it take to escape history, to escape an inertia that powerful, and carve a new course? The hardest part is leaving Earth behind.

They lived like monkeys still, while their new god powers lay around them in the weeds.

You just don't have faith!" Frank repeated."Well I hope I never get it! It's like being hit by a hammer in the head!

You have a mind like the rings of Saturn. A million miles wide and an inch deep.

The rational reasons were all rationales for an underlying irrationality.

Efficiency was just a measurement of how fast money moved from the poor to the rich. We prefer the opposite of efficiency, which is to say, justice.

Nothing was ever normal again.Many lives change like that -- all of a sudden, and forever.

All the great moments of history have taken place inside people’s heads.

It is a long time ago. So many lives ago--I get them all confused, don’t you?

The people are suffering. Relieving people’s poverty ought to be handled as though one were rescuing them from fire, or saving them from drowning. One cannot hesitate.

Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire, bacteria feel desire. Life is wanting.

They tell each other what they are thinking. But there is no reason to believe anything they say.

Bold didn’t know what he felt, it changed minute by minute.

The one who tells the stories rules the world.

...knowing too that [the sky] was just a kind of rainbow made it glorious. A rainbow that was blue everywhere and covered everything.