The Line of Polity Quotes

“The greatest admission a human can make is that perhaps he does not have the intelligence, the vision, the grasp to fully understand the universe, and that perhaps no human ever will. To put it all down to some omnipotent deity is a cop-out. Factor in fairy tales of an afterlife and it becomes a comforting cop-out.”
― Neal Asher, The Line of Polity

“Organized religions are just elaborate con-tricks. Take the Christian religion from which yours is an offshoot: “Obey me throughout your life, give me the product of your labour, and you will go to Paradise when you die. Disobey me and you will go to Hell and burn forever. Of course I cannot prove that this is what will actually happen – you just have to have faith.” That was a good one, and it worked well enough in a society that still believed the Earth was flat.”
― Neal Asher, The Line of Polity

“Thorn’s reply to this involved a physically impossible sexual activity in conjunction with the edible but prickly fruit of a bromeliad.”
― Neal Asher, The Line Of Polity

“Stone Age men broke flint and found it cut things better than their own teeth did. We’ve created methods of transportation that work better than legs, and often do things we could only dream of, like flying. A hydraulic grip clamps on things better than a human hand. They’re all tools and nobody objects to them, so why should anyone object to creating minds that are better at thinking than our own, and rulers that are better at their job than those humans who would aspire to rule?”
― Neal Asher, The Line Of Polity

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― Neal Asher, The Line of Polity

“You left him his Gift, I see,’ he said. Claus looked momentarily worried. I thought it best to leave that decision to you.’ Remove it now.’ Claus fisted his own chest then strode over to the old man in the frame. No … no, you can’t,’ Amoloran gasped as Claus closed his fingers around the scaled aug behind the old man’s ear.”
― Neal Asher, The Line of Polity

“I believe only in those things that can be proven empirically. There has never been any proof that a god exists, and if such proof was found why the hell should we worship him? Organized religions are just elaborate con-tricks. Take the Christian religion from which yours is an offshoot: “Obey me throughout your life, give me the product of your labour, and you will go to Paradise when you die. Disobey me and you will go to Hell and burn forever. Of course I cannot prove that this is what will actually happen – you just have to have faith.” That was a good one, and it worked well enough in a society that still believed the Earth was flat.”
― Neal Asher, The Line of Polity

“There is no such thing as immortality: death is change. A human being is dying every day that it lives. The material of its body is exchanged for other materials, its thoughts change. All that lives is the DNA, and what does that matter to you? In the end it is your mind that is important.”
― Neal Asher, The Line of Polity