Hawksbill Station Quotes

“They had been unable to move that vast placid mass of citizens, the ones who were satisfied with the government, whatever sort of government it might happen to be, the ones who feared rocking the boat more than they feared being devoured by the boat.”
― Robert Silverberg, Hawksbill Station

“was a built-in stability factor: the citizens wanted the system to remain as it was”
― Robert Silverberg, Hawksbill Station

“They could not be called either conservatives or liberals”
― Robert Silverberg, Hawksbill Station

“You see how meaningless these political tags are? We’re so far to the left that we’re right-wingers, and we’re so far to the right that we’re left-wingers.”
― Robert Silverberg, Hawksbill Station

“It isn’t a philosophy at all,” Jack Bernstein maintained, hammering fist against palm. “It’s just a gang of strong-arm men who happened to find a power vacuum and moved right in. They’ve got no overriding program of government. They simply do what they think is necessary to perpetuate their own rule and keep things from blowing up again. They grabbed power, and now they improvise from day to day.”
― Robert Silverberg, Hawksbill Station