The Space Race Quotes

“If untruths become part of our language—untruths that in context are intended to be interpreted as polite expressions or figure of speech—then each person is left to decide for themselves the meaning of any sentence. And when language and meaning become subjective, society breaks down. The rule of law becomes a grey area. Commands become suggestions. And how do you keep anyone, including yourself, accountable for actions based on ambiguous language?”
― Alex Latimer, The Space Race

“Above us, where the lights of the sky flared up and streaked in all directions, where the scale of stars and galaxies were beyond our comprehension, there was no sadness. And below us, where the ants went about their work late into the night, too small to even be considered by creatures many times their size, there was no sadness. It was only in the middle – between the immense and the minute – that sadness seemed to exist. A sadness we ignored by either looking up or looking down.”
― Alex Latimer, The Space Race

“Morality doesn’t exist in space, only in the spaces between people.”
― Alex Latimer, The Space Race

“It was only in the middle—between the immense and the minute—that sadness seemed to exist.”
― Alex Latimer, The Space Race

“A war that includes four-year-olds with AK 47s is a war that no one can win — been if some men... go home victorious.”
― Alex Latimer, The Space Race

“When you look at it objectively, that’s what most colonists do—they land then find a way of wiping out their competition. In America is was blankets covered with smallpox and in Australia it was permits to hunt aborigines. If you wipe a whole people from the face of the earth, then there’s no one to point fingers at you. It’s just their spirits that haunt you and spirits can’t do shit.”
― Alex Latimer, The Space Race

“The secrets in his brain were like some mesmerizing drug to me.”
― Alex Latimer, The Space Race