Quotes by Greg Bear

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All it takes to get elected in twenty-first-century America is a mob of frightened sheep and a wolf with a nice smile.

America

Nice

Sheep

All things will be ambiguous, for this is the curse of wisdom.

All Things

Ambiguous

Curse

Altruism is masked self-interest. Aggressive self-interest is a masked urge to self-destruction.

Aggressive

Destruction

Self

Apocalypse could not be repealed by the democratic process.

Apocalypse

Democratic

Process

But to fight something, you really have to try to understand its motivations—particularly when the something you’re fighting holds most of the cards, the deck is stacked against you, and the whole gambling hall is on fire and filled with thugs.

Fighting

Motivation

Thug

Conservatism is not about tradition and morality, hasn’t been for many decades… It is about the putative biological and spiritual superiority of the wealthy.

Morality

Political

Spiritual

For years, even before 9/11, I’ve been trying to warn that the threat from amateur biolabs will ultimately turn out to be far more troublesome than leakage from military labs – perhaps even more costly and deadly than nuclear terrorism.

Military

Nuclear Terrorism

Years

Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.

Accepting

Grief

Inefficiency

Having one’s eyes opened doesn’t make one grateful.

Eye

Grateful

I sometimes think we deserve to die, we’re all so goddamned stupid.

Sometimes

Stupid

Thinking

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Accepting

Action

Aggressive

All Things

Ambiguous

America

Angel

Apocalypse

Atoms

Believe

Blood

Children

Civilization

Curse

Debate

Democratic

Destruction

Differences

Distance

Doe

Egalitarianism

Enemy

Eye

Feelings

Fiction

Fighting

Flesh

Focus

Forever

Friendship

Fun

Fusion

Giving

Grateful

Grief

Hell

Ignorance

Inefficiency

Inspire

Kings

Leader

Long

Love Coming Back

Men

Military

Mind

Morality

Motivation

Nice

Nuclear Terrorism

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Quotes by Greg Bear

Greg Bear

All it takes to get elected in twenty-first-century America is a mob of frightened sheep and a wolf with a nice smile.

All things will be ambiguous, for this is the curse of wisdom.

Altruism is masked self-interest. Aggressive self-interest is a masked urge to self-destruction.

Apocalypse could not be repealed by the democratic process.

But to fight something, you really have to try to understand its motivations—particularly when the something you’re fighting holds most of the cards, the deck is stacked against you, and the whole gambling hall is on fire and filled with thugs.

Conservatism is not about tradition and morality, hasn’t been for many decades… It is about the putative biological and spiritual superiority of the wealthy.

For years, even before 9/11, I’ve been trying to warn that the threat from amateur biolabs will ultimately turn out to be far more troublesome than leakage from military labs – perhaps even more costly and deadly than nuclear terrorism.

Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.

Having one’s eyes opened doesn’t make one grateful.

I sometimes think we deserve to die, we’re all so goddamned stupid.

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