Best Iain Banks Sayings
- There has seldom if ever a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and prejudices of their… Call
- Empathize with stupidity and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot Empathize
- Our lives are about development, mutation and the possibility of change; that is almost a definition of what life is: change... If you disable change,… Alter
- They speak very well of you". - "They speak very well of everybody." - "That so bad?" - "Yes. It means you can´t trust them. Bad
- -"Then what," Lededje asked, trying to keep her voice cold and not get caught up in the avatar´s obvious enthusiasm, "is making you smile about… Asked
- The truth is not always useful, not always good. It’s like putting your faith in water. Yes, we need the rain, but too much can… All
- Don't you have a religion?" Dorolow asked Horza. "Yes," he replied, not taking his eyes away from the screen on the wall above the end… Asked
- Escape is a consumer goods like another Consumer
- People can be teachers and idiots; they can be philosophers and idiots; they can be politicians and idiots... in fact I think they have to… Advancement
- All our lives are symbols. Everything we do is part of a pattern we have at least some say in. The strong make their own… All
- Hersesy is denying the word of God, and the word of God is much more reliably expressed in the natural world as it’s revealed through… Book
- I just think people overvalue argument because they like to hear themselves talk. Argument
- My greatest enemies are Women and the Sea. These things I hate. Women because they are weak and stupid and live in the shadow of… Always Frustrated
- An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way… Civilisation
- The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have chosen to put profits before… Agonies
- One of your American professors said that to study religion was merely to know the mind of man, but if one truly wanted to know… American
- Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish… Accomplish
- My gratitude extends beyond the limits of my capacity to express it, Beyond
- I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others. Easiest
- Anyway, you can't leave her like that. You can't do that to the woman. She doesn't deserve it; nobody does. You don't belong to her… Another Fifty
- It gripped her hand gently. 'Regret is for humans,' it said. She laughed. 'Really?' The machine shrugged and let go of her hand. 'Oh, no.… Gently
- What's one more meaningless act of violence on that zoo of a planet? It would be appropriate. When in Rome; burn it. Act
- It's a library, only the stupid or the evil are afraid of those Afraid
- He knew all the answers. Everybody did. Everybody knew everything and everybody knew all the answers. It was just that the enemy seemed to know… All
- Any theory which causes solipsism to seem just as likely an explanation for the phenomena it seeks to describe ought to be held in the… Any