Author of quotes: Dan Simmons. Page 1

... when public pressure is replaced by the totalitarian prodding, the laws tend to be forgotten, if not sent to landfill.

To be civilized means to possess two qualities - compassion and ability to take a punch. Never laugh at a man who was not lucky. And if you fail, don't curse fate. Take her punches and keep his composure.

The best moments of life it is impossible to catch and put in your pocket. The only way to immortalize them is to enjoy them when they happen.

The annual Darwin award is awarded to the person who will be the greatest blessings to the human race, ridding the gene pool of humanity from its DNA.

America does not want to grow up. She is a perpetual baby, a huge, plump and pink, and now owning a deadly weapon that does not know how to handle.

...a truly unhappy man can make only a woman.

- See children? - quietly asked Amrita.
So far I have not noticed it, but now I see little girls seven or eight years old stood there, holding the hips of children even less. Only now I realized that it was one of the most frequent us for the last couple of days images: children holding children. Since it was raining, they took shelter under the eaves, walkways and soaking wet cloths. Their ragged clothes were bright colors, but even the dazzling red or Royal blue did not conceal dirt and wear. On the skinny wrists and ankles girls wore gold bracelets. Their future dowry.
- There are a lot of children, ' I said.
And almost any child, ' said Amrita so quietly that her words sounded almost like a whisper.
It took me only a few seconds to make sure it is right. Most of the children we have seen, childhood is left behind. To babysit younger sisters and brothers, to work hard, to marry early and raise your offspring - that is their immediate future. Many of the children who now ran naked through the mud, and will not live the next few years. Those who reach our age, meet the new century among a billion people facing starvation and social chaos.

Fear... a nameless, stupid fear ruled my actions much harder than any logic.

The strongest argument against marriage, it is absolutely irrefutable argument against years of life with one person is the destruction of the illusion of free will constant awareness of their complete predictability for the spouse.

Only power - a priori reality. All things we fear, we fear because of the fact that some power extends to us his power. We all desire freedom from such fear. All religions are attempts to achieve authority over forces that can control us.

I want our child heard the friendly voices of good books and even more friendly silence in the company of good people.

I think that black holes exist in reality. Black holes of the human spirit. And in those places on Earth where because of overpopulation, poverty, or just human perversity breaks the connection of things, that black core in us absorbs the rest.

All violence is an attempt to exercise power.

People always will be willing to fork out huge money for something stupid.