With gritty action and realistic science, Peter Watts brings to life a dark and vivid world.
A usurper always distrusts the whole world.
Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.
Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Necessity inspires the fatal thought.
First thoughts are not always the best.
If ardent passions push not men on to lofty enterprise, calm wisdom never will accomplish it.
Every man is a potential rapist.
They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals in the least; my faith in fundamentals is exactly what it always was. What I have lost is my childlike faith in practical politics.
All people go to Allah after their death, but the happy person is the one who goes to Allah while still alive.
They could not truly look dead, because they did not ever look alive.