Salvation Quotes

“Ideology is a sick-soul-meme; it gnaws basic decency away until you can self-justify the most extreme acts as worthwhile to further the cause. Any cause.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Salvation

“With a degree of privacy assured, I squatted down and crapped out the biopackage I’d brought along. The human anal cavity has traditionally been a smuggler favorite for most of our existence on Earth. It made me really proud to carry that fine institution on into the starflight era. Yeah, right.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Salvation

“In any decent civilization, healthcare is a right, not a privilege.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Salvation

“Forty-two.” “Excuse me?” I queried. “Old joke,” the cardinal admitted. “The number of angels that can actually dance on a pinhead.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Salvation

“Pick a gender and stick with it, guys.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Salvation

“getting a second chance is the greatest human dream and delusion we have. It even outranks religion.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Salvation

“Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon. Classic, but not as good as Wish You Were Here.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Salvation

“All it’s done is create a separate culture—which, incidentally, never stops whining on about its superiority. That always ends well.” “Then it is not unusual for such a culture to be subject to attack from ideological rivals.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Salvation

“dry-fluid effect,”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Salvation

“I seek universal equality. And the most basic inequality is that caused by a binary gender. It fuels every disparity and bigotry present in the so-called Universal culture.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Salvation

“kathoey.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Salvation

“But rocks falling on our heads can’t happen anymore,” Alik insisted. “We’re not fucking dumbasses like the dinosaurs; we’re here to stay. It’s Darwin.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Salvation

“Yirella shook her head. “No parent would do this. Doesn’t matter what kind.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Salvation

“Then Lucius would have led a three-man detainment group in. Joaquin would have been contained and taken back to the Nightingale Avenue office.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Salvation

“You didn’t get to his level in Connexion Security without being competent.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Salvation

“The Olyix understand. You are new to sentience. Your behavior is still affected by your animal origin. You seek to advance yourselves at the expense of others.” “As I said: a minority.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Salvation

“it’s rarer than unicorn shit,”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Salvation

“He was a huge man, whose sixtieth decade had been stretched out for a punishingly long time by telomere treatments,”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Salvation

“Those who do not accept due process, who refuse to acknowledge the democratic mandate, are a cancer on society.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Salvation

“I’ll see if I can get some more video files,” Raina said. “But a lot of the surveillance cameras in Kintore are cloud stored, especially the civic ones covering the streets. Hacking them is going to be a little more difficult.” “Do what you can,” he told her.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Salvation

“Christ, chief, what do they do to these people? Are we working for psychopaths”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Salvation

“Now Savi was playing her part in making sure no other innocents got hurt by psychotic ideologues who believed they had an absolute right to use force to achieve their goal.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Salvation

“Urban violence is in decline for the first time in decades, Cal.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Salvation

“Ninety-nine percent are just rebelling against their parents now they’ve finally left home. But they’re susceptible to radicalization. Somebody’s got to stop them being exploited by the real zealot shits; the university deans don’t do a damn thing.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Salvation

“How many terrorist attacks have there been in the last fifty years? The last seventy-five, even?” “Not many,” Callum agreed grudgingly.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Salvation

“After graduation she saw several active deployments in the Urban Rapid Suppression Force. Then her parents were killed by a drone bomb some bunch of anti-imperialist anarchist whack-jobs launched at the sneering symbol of their evil foreign economic oppressors—or, in English, the Italian remote drone systems factory where her father worked.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Salvation

“There must be so many humans spread across the galaxy now; it isn’t hard to think they found one star that’s safe from the enemy.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Salvation

“Loi and Eldlund were a lot more cautious – we should investigate longer, bring in more equipment and specialists, make detailed risk assessments. Typical corporate culture kids. They had no concept of taking responsibility, because that meant consequences – and Legal always hated consequences.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Salvation: Salvation Sequence Book 1

“Ideology is a sick soul-meme; it gnaws basic decency away until you can self-justify the most extreme acts as worthwhile to further the cause. Any cause.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Salvation: Salvation Sequence Book 1

“Maldives”
― Peter F. Hamilton, Salvation