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Though sceptics in their inmost hearts, they looked upon religion as an instrument of government.
Religion as politics
“I can now afford to think about her.
I no longer cry when I hear her name.
I no longer imagine the transporter being called to take her to the morgue after we left the ICU.
Yet I still need her with me.”
― Blue Nights
I no longer cry when I hear her name.
I no longer imagine the transporter being called to take her to the morgue after we left the ICU.
Yet I still need her with me.”
― Blue Nights
“I feel like my heart is talking to you all the time.”
― Second Place
― Second Place
“There you have it. You see, they were Mothers, not in our sense of helpless involuntary fecundity, forced to fill and overfill the land, every land, and then see their children suffer, sin, and die, fighting horribly with one another; but in the sense of Conscious Makers of People. Mother-love with them was not a brute passion, a mere “instinct,” a wholly personal feeling; it was—a religion.”
― Herland
― Herland
“But life runs in every direction and then ends mid-sentence; sometimes there’s nothing better than waking up early in the morning just to gaze at the surface of the sea, and let time pass by.”
― Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night: A Novel
― Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night: A Novel
“....We're machines, and machines are objects. Objects are its."
"I'd say you're more than just an object," Dex said.
The robot looked a touch offended. "I would never call you just an animal, Sibling Dex." It turned its gaze to the road, head held high. "We don't have to fall into the same category to be of equal value.”
― A Psalm for the Wild-Built
"I'd say you're more than just an object," Dex said.
The robot looked a touch offended. "I would never call you just an animal, Sibling Dex." It turned its gaze to the road, head held high. "We don't have to fall into the same category to be of equal value.”
― A Psalm for the Wild-Built
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