Kim Stanley RobinsonThinkers

Action is everything — beauty is the promise of happiness, and the only happiness is action.

Action is everything — words have no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on the flow of the stream.

The Analogy is always deceiving more than it reveals.

Anger is not always just fear flung outward at the world. It can also be a fuel for right action, it can also make good.

Arrogance is a quality not just correlated with — but rather a manifestation of — stupidity, a result of stupidity.

Capital has considerably more liquidity than water.

Capital is simply the useful residue of the work of past laborers, and it could belong to everyone as well as to a few.

The Capitalist is always going on about the risks they take — but the so-called risk of the capitalist is merely one of the many privileges of capital

Childhood is not just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward, which is why our childhoods are so long.

Colonialism is still here. It never died, it just changed names and hired local cops.