Beggars in Spain Quotes

“You must not let them bother you, Leisha,” he said in his wonderful accent. “Not ever. There is an old Asian proverb: ‘The dogs bark but the caravan moves on.’ You must never let your individual caravan be slowed by the barking of rude or envious dogs.”
― Nancy Kress, Beggars in Spain

“No social movement has ever progressed without emphasizing division, and doing that means stirring up hate.”
― Nancy Kress, Beggars in Spain

“No more than a third party could, for instance, leave your fingerprint on a gun if you were not there.”
― Nancy Kress, Beggars in Spain

“The deliberately blind deserved not to see.”
― Nancy Kress, Beggars in Spain

“perhaps we should think deeply about the founders of this country: Jefferson, Washington, Paine, Adams—inhabitants of the Age of Reason, all. These men created our orderly and balanced system of laws precisely to protect the property and achievements created by the individual efforts of balanced and rational minds.”
― Nancy Kress, Beggars in Spain

“Fine,” Tony bit off. “Now what about the beggars in Spain?” “The what?” “You walk down a street in a poor country like Spain and you see a beggar. Do you give him a dollar?” “Probably.” “Why? He’s trading nothing with you. He has nothing to trade.”
― Nancy Kress, Beggars in Spain

“Kenzo Yagai. Kate Addams. Professor Lane. My father. Every Sleeper who inhabits the world of fair trade and mutually beneficial contracts.”
― Nancy Kress, Beggars in Spain

“Harvard had become the controversial leader of a return to hard-edged learning of facts, theories, applications, problem-solving, and intellectual efficiency”
― Nancy Kress, Beggars in Spain

“From the first sight of Massachusetts Hall, older than the United States by a half century,”
― Nancy Kress, Beggars in Spain

“But you know, I get tired of these overwhelming physical presences like your Mr. Hawke. All charisma and outsized ego, using the intensity of their beliefs to hit you like a fist. It’s wearing.”
― Nancy Kress, Beggars in Spain

“Law is not theater. Before we write laws reflecting gaudy and dramatic feelings, we must be very sure we understand the difference.”
― Nancy Kress, Beggars in Spain

“But never before in the United States had the objects of envy and the objects of biological prejudice been the same group.”
― Nancy Kress, Beggars in Spain

“But you have no religious faith." Richard had said, smiling, "you're not even a believer." Jennifer hadn't tried to explain to him that religious belief was not the point. The will to believe created its own power, its own faith, and, ultimately, its own will. Through the practice of faith, whatever its specific rituals, one brought into existence the object of that faith. The believer became the Creator.”
― Nancy Kress, Beggars in Spain

“Why do law-abiding and productive human beings owe anything to those who neither produce very much nor abide by just laws? What philosophical or economic or spiritual justification is there for owing then anything?" ...The question gaped beneath her, but she didn't try to evade it. "I don't know. I just know we do.”
― Nancy Kress, Beggars in Spain

“without being tiresome. They lacked that all-important dimension of physics: torque. Too much time ahead, too little behind, like a man trying to carry a horizontal ladder with a grip at one end.”
― Nancy Kress, Beggars in Spain