If there was anything any Radchaai considered essential for civilised life, it was tea.

Without feelings insignificant decisions become excruciating attempts to compare endless arrays of inconsequential things. It's just easier to handle those with emotions.

Unity, I thought, implies the possibility of disunity. Beginnings imply and require endings.

To be Radchaai is to be civilised.

Let every act be just, and proper, and beneficial.

Good necessitates evil and the two sides of that disk are not always clearly marked.

If you're going to make a desperate, hopeless act of defiance you should make it a good one.

What, after all, was the point of civilisation if not the well-being of citizens?

It's the people without the money and the power, who desperately want to live, for those people small things aren't small at all.

Things happen the way they happen because the world is the way it is.

When one is the agent of order and civilisation in the universe, one doesn't stoop to negotiate. Especially with nonhumans.

Gravitate towards your heart’s desire!

I remembered the old doctor, - "It would be interesting for science to watch the mental changes of individuals, on the spot." I felt I was becoming scientifically interesting.

Nonviolence is only for the brave men and women of the world because it requires courage – courage to love the beauty of life, beauty of humanity and the beauty of the world.

Play on both sides of the board is my favourite strategy.

I'm not really into vinyl. There's something about that raw, birth of rock and roll feel that makes me crazy.

Every man must walk to the beat of his own drummer.

Nobody loves me. Sometimes I wish God could come down and hug me.

All peoples are fed up with the American government.

I have a tendency, just because I'm an ambitious person, to get impatient with things and want them to be moving faster then they are.

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards