The penalty for a long life is increasing resistance to change. — Peter F. Hamilton Change Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to do what’s wrong in order to do what’s right. — Peter F. Hamilton Order Copy Share Image
“Life alone is precious, but conscious thought is the greatest gift the universe offers.” — Peter F. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Ozzie hurriedly loaded in restrictions that would stop the boy wading through porn all night long—” — Peter F. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Alien Affairs. Bad name I always thought, makes it sound like they're shagging them rather than investigating them.” — Peter F. Hamilton Affairs Copy Share Image
“quantum reality, and finding itself emerging in a continuum it had no prior conception of: an energistic vacuum” — Peter F. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Societies only have waste products while acquiring fresh raw material remains a cheaper option than recycling.” — Peter F. Hamilton Common sense Copy Share Image
The military do so love shiny new technology, there's always so many ways to abuse it. — Peter F. Hamilton Abuse Copy Share Image
“But to have dreamed the dream is to have flown above the mountains so high in all but deed.” — Peter F. Hamilton Dream Copy Share Image
“Interpretation through the filters of ideology has always been one of our race's curses.” — Peter F. Hamilton Ideology Copy Share Image
This is the age of total digitalisation; everything is online always.' 'Uh huh, and that's why our politicians are pure and clean,… — Peter F. Hamilton Age Copy Share Image
“I’m impressed. That is one big mother of a tax office.’ ‘They say that the Captain has an agreement with the Skylords,… — Peter F. Hamilton Parenting Copy Share Image
“Typical case, educated way, way beyond her IQ, with ambition stronger than ability. She’s just another cause fascist, son, and that’s the… — Peter F. Hamilton Fascist Copy Share Image
I believe that intelligence and rationality will always be primary no matter what shape sentient creatures take. To not think that would… — Peter F. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Our society is mature. Change is instability. That is why every institution we have resists change. To maintain the status quo is… — Peter F. Hamilton Change Copy Share Image
You convinced yourselves we're just a bunch of regular lads who got a bad break in life. Anything else would have cracked… — Peter F. Hamilton Copy Share Image
How many twenty-second-century bureaucrats did it take to change a light panel? We'll have a sub-committee meeting and get back to you… — Peter F. Hamilton Bureaucrats Copy Share Image
“The biggest victory they can have is to change our lives. I am going to carry on exactly as before. Anything else… — Peter F. Hamilton Victory Copy Share Image
The balance is the penalty of being human: the danger of allowing yourself to feel. For this we walk a narrow path… — Peter F. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“The original castle back in Edinburgh was the seat of Scottish nationalism. It symbolized everything to the diehard believers. Despite all the… — Peter F. Hamilton Nationalism Copy Share Image
“...Aldersgate Street, the bottom of the A1 - which was the modern designation of the original Great North Road, built by the… — Peter F. Hamilton History-repeating-itself Copy Share Image
“The point is, the Grand Families see how much support you have, and they know you want to instigate change. Change for… — Peter F. Hamilton Change Copy Share Image
“It’s only going to take another week of this and we’re going to have the mother of all humanitarian crises on our… — Peter F. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“What's a lightwave ship?" "UFO, basically." "Cool," Angela said.” — Peter F. Hamilton Space Copy Share Image
“The game is changing' .. :The game is the same, the stakes are rising.” — Peter F. Hamilton Change Copy Share Image
“I was never a dictator, I just had a huge amount of political clout.” — Peter F. Hamilton Clout Copy Share Image
“A large part of evolution is interaction. Isolation is not evolution; it is stagnation.” — Peter F. Hamilton Biology Copy Share Image
Once you've achieved everything, there is nothing left. You take out the core of being human: the striving. — Peter F. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“They used a bazooka to shoot the Warrior Angel, it was spectacular ineffective.” — Peter F. Hamilton Bazooka Copy Share Image
“There it was, plain and beautifully simple, five generations down the line. :)” — Peter F. Hamilton Generations Copy Share Image
“Funny how different life could be, so many things that make you take one route instead of another. If only we could… — Peter F. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“He knows it never works, so why does he always go for the same type? “Optimism!” — Peter F. Hamilton Hope Copy Share Image
“Secrecy is like oxygen to politicians and defense forces; there’s always got to be some of it to keep them going.” — Peter F. Hamilton Politicians Copy Share Image
“[sic] his reaction was a sign of civilization. Nobody reaches for a gun anymore, just for his lawyer.” — Peter F. Hamilton Irony Copy Share Image