Meru Quotes

“The purpose of the judiciary is to make you contemplate your mistakes and convince you not to commit the same crime again. That’s why they’re called consequences and not punishments.”
― S.B. Divya, Meru

“The notion of individual rights as separate from all others is a fallacy on the order of classical mechanics relative to quantum theory.”
― S.B. Divya, Meru

“the movement from post-scarcity to post-necessity,”
― S.B. Divya, Meru

“She?” “Yes, at least until she tells us otherwise.”
― S.B. Divya, Meru

“They could speak through emtalk while their lips were busy elsewhere.”
― S.B. Divya, Meru

“Inoculation at an early age meant that people had to opt in for having children rather than the other way around, and humanity’s natural inertia meant that few bothered.”
― S.B. Divya, Meru

“some need more. They want to feel accomplished, like they’ve pushed at the boundaries of all knowledge and made it yield to their efforts. They want to make a lasting contribution that will carry their name forward into the centuries after they’re gone.”
― S.B. Divya, Meru

“Humans are terrible people. First they polluted Earth, then they turned Mars into a hot, stormy hellhole when they tried to terraform it. Now they want to do the same to Meru. They have no gratitude for the work alloys and constructs do to keep Earth clean and safe and livable or the work our tarawans do to maintain genetic diversity and adaptability. They’re stuck in the same old selfish gene-set they evolved from.>”
― S.B. Divya, Meru

“First comes desire, born of the mind. Next comes will, to carry the self. Last comes peace, the fulfillment of purpose.”
― S.B. Divya, Meru

“Life exists to gather and disseminate information.”
― S.B. Divya, Meru

“Our lives are luxuries. You should appreciate that more. Ambition and materialism lead to greed and exploitation”
― S.B. Divya, Meru

“At the end of that segment, they came upon a plaque with the words of Ratnam inscribed in glowing letters: Ambition and materialism lead to greed and exploitation.”
― S.B. Divya, Meru

“Vaha had secured zirself in the berth diagonal from the courier’s.”
― S.B. Divya, Meru