269 Quotes by Kim Stanley Robinson

In a capitalist world, the word capital has taken on more and more uses. . . . human capital, for instance, which is what labor accumulates through education and work experience. Human capital differs from the classic kind in that you can't inherit it, and it can only be rented, not bought or sold.

You can only kill disappointment with a new try.

Revolution suspends habit as well as law. But just as nature abhors a vacuum, people abhor anarchy.

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

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 a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on the flow of the stream.

Something strange happened to me out there in the desert; I don't know what.

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

The one who tells the stories rules the world.