30 quotes found
“Ships have feelings.”
“Good necessitates evil.”
“The point is, there is no point. Choose your own!”
“Any attempt to list the ten best science fiction novels is doomed to failure.”
“What, after all, was the point of civilization if not the well-being of citizens?”
“Good necessitates evil and the two sides of that disk are not always clearly marked.”
“I love analogies! Lets have one.Imagine that you dearly love, absolutely crave, a particular kind of food. There are some places in town that do this particular cuisine just amazingly. Lots of peop...”
“In the nineteen years since then, I had learned eleven languages and 713 songs. I had found ways to conceal what I waseven, I was fairly sure, from the Lord of the Radch herself. I had worked as a ...”
“Ive been thinking about it, since you said it, said Seivarden. No, said Mercy of Kalr. And Ive concluded that I dont want to be a captain. But I find I like the thought that I could be.”
“If thats what youre willing to do for someone you hate, what would you do for someone you love?”
“Do you still think Mianaai controls the Radchaai through brainwashing or threats of execution? Those are there, they exist, yes, but most Radchaai, like people most places I have been, do what they...”
“You take what you want at the end of a gun, you murder and rape and steal, and you call it bringing civilization. And what is civilization, to you, but us being properly grateful to be murdered and...”
“You are so civilized. So polite. So brave coming here alone when you know no one here would dare to touch you. So easy to be all those things, when all the power is on your side.”
“The single word that directs a persons fate and ultimately the fates of those she comes in contact with is of course a common subject of entertainments and moralizing stories, but if everyone were ...”
“When you grow up knowing that you deserve to be on top, that the lesser houses exist to serve your houses glorious destiny, you take such things for granted. Youre born assuming that someone else i...”
“You never knelt to get anywhere. You are where you are because you're fucking capable, and willing to risk everything to do right, and I'll never be half what you are even if I tried my whole life,...”
“Please, sir. Tisarwat seemed not to have heard either of them. We cant leave things the way they are, and I have an idea. That got the translators full attention. She looked up from the game, frown...”
“Without feelings insignificant decisions become excruciating attempts to compare endless arrays of inconsequential things. It's just easier to handle those with emotions.”
“The problem is knowing when what you are about to do will make a difference. Im not only speaking of the small actions that, cumulatively, over time, or in great numbers, alter the course of events...”
“Unity, I thought, implies the possibility of disunity. Beginnings imply and require endings.”
“...if anyone who speaks up to criticise something obviously evil is punished merely for speaking, civilisation will be in a bad way.”
“It all goes aroundIt all goes aroundThe planet goes around the sunIt all goes aroundMy mother said it all goes aroundIt all goes aroundThe ship goes around the station”
“The gender thing is a giveaway, though. Only a Radchaai would misgender people the way you do."I'd guessed wrong. "I can't see under your clothes. And even if I could, that's not always a reliable ...”
