Quotes from Peter F. Hamilton

the only useful thing we did for the average citizen by then was to hand out official crime numbers for insurance claims.

What is it every authoritarian government says? If you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear.

Worry is the Devil's disciple, it rots the soul.

And its strong continuing religious beliefs were an indication of how widespread the faculty was, granting the "supernatural" events a respectable orthodoxy.

Those who do not accept due process, who refuse to acknowledge the democratic mandate, are a cancer on society.

Politicians are its creatures, too. They are the easiest of all humans to corrupt.

And even if Democratic Unity agreed we could and helped, we're still twenty-three million light-years from the Commonwealth galaxy.

Traits I can manage, prohibited words I can't.

Sara caught sight of them stumbling toward the tent together, and hurried over. "Are you all right?" "No he's fucking not," Ozzie barked at her. "You might have told me." "It's a hunt. What did you expect?" Ozzie's anger spluttered out. She was right. What had I expected it to be like? Just another TSI spectacular?

Ozzie hurriedly loaded in restrictions that would stop the boy wading through porn all night long—

In this reality, she would doubtless tell you she must respect the local constitution, or some nonsense justification.

Sometimes you just have to make the choice—because if you're in the position to make that choice, you have the right to make it.

I love humans, all humans. I often think that perhaps I was born into the wrong species.

Today is the twenty-first of May 28367." So, over twenty-six thousand years ago . . . "How old am I, in Earth years?" "Twenty-six thousand, three hundred and fifty-five.

But it's so stupid. I just want to be left alone, I want time to come to terms with what's happened. That's all. We've got this beautiful farm, and we're making it work without hurting anybody.

When they all gathered their breath and realized they were still alive, they saw the bullet. It floated motionless six inches in front of Edeard's face.

We must know that we can do what we have to do.

But the very nature of linear time implies that—from an external observer viewpoint—the history of the entire universe from creation to heat death exists in a static form, allowing us—consciousness—to perceive time moving in only one direction. Ergo, the universe's entirety—both space and time—was created as a complete whole. Which argues that change is not possible.

You're wrong," she said. "Both of you. If I know anything now, it's that our religions are lies. Horrid, dirty lies. I don't believe in God, or destiny, not any more.

Cults have refined their recruitment operations down the centuries until they have become masters of extracting devotion and money from their damaged followers in exchange for their own vision of salvation.

One addiction laid you open to others in a fast downward spiral.

Wilson took three quick steps, bringing him right up to the interloper, and swung a fist.

there could well be two alien species out there, both with weapons and technology so far ahead of ours it might as well be magic." "Thank you, Sir Arthur," Ozzie muttered. Nigel grinned at his old friend; he doubted anyone else in the room got the reference.

The Olyix can't always have been miserable fascist bastards," Yuri said. "Something changed them.