82 Quotes by Greg Bear

All it takes to get elected in twenty-first-century America is a mob of frightened sheep and a wolf with a nice smile,

Didn’t anyone who changed things ultimately lead some people – perhaps many people – to death, grief, torment?

The death of a world is judgment of its inadequacy. Death removes the unnecessary and the false.

Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings – stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again.

How nice it would be to know nothing about all the inner workings. Animal innocence; the unexamined life is the sweetest. But things go wrong and prompt introspection and examination. The root of all awareness.

I’m still out there. In my head. I have to sort it out or I’ll never come home.

I sometimes think we deserve to die, we’re all so goddamned stupid.

The price of freedom – of individuality – is attention to politics, careful planning, careful organization; philosophy is no more a barrier against political disaster than it is against plague.

Desert and Death Valley were the Mecca and Al Medina.