David Brin

Quotes

  1. He read about humanity’s age-old racial struggles. Had it really been less than half a millennium since humans contrived gigantic, fatuous lies about each other simply because of pigment shades, and killed millions because they believed their own lies?

    p. 364

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  2. “This is a lovely world,” he sighed. “And yet it has suffered horror. Sometimes, so-called civilization seems bent on destroying those very things which it is sworn to protect.”

    p. 590

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  3. Life is not fair...Anyone who says it is, or even that it ought to be, is a fool or worse.

    p. 634

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