Citizens Quote by Stephen Baxter

“A citizen of the Roman Empire, for example, would have placed less value on individual liberty in the modern Western sense than on collective responsibility.”

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We seem to be young, in a very old Galaxy. We're like kids tiptoeing through a ruined mansion.

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“Look, whatever hayseed laws you pass in Who-Knows-What -" "Hell-Knows-Where." "Don't amount to a hill of beans back here, as your type might say.”

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“She was capable of suffering – that was the price of sentience.”

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“This is what I have learned, Malenfant. This is how it is, how it was, how it came to be.”

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“Something had changed. History resumed.”

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“ Per ardua ad astra. Through adversity to the stars.”

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The Long Earth is bountiful but not forgiving.

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“Every door I pass is one way. So I may as well look around, and see what there is beyond the next door, and…

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Imagine God inside your computer, your phone, everyone else's computer. Imagine someone who almost is the Black Corporation, with all its power and riches…

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“We are all creatures of logic, at root. Of little switches turning on and off in our heads, metaphorically speaking.”

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“...the story of colonial-era America, rerun across an infinite frontier...All of which was fine, until the day you needed root-canal dentistry. Or your e-book…

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Politics is not an issue whether you like or dislike , but every citizen must involve.

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“The police ultimately pay the price for poor customer service when citizens become fearful of them.”

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Worship isn't destructive, Martin. I know that. I don't. I only know it's the core of his life. What else has he got? He…

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No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.

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A free society depends upon a high degree of mutual trust. The public will not give that trust to officials who are not seen…

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The average ordinary citizen can do a lot of different things when it comes to the climate crisis.

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