David Brin Quotes

When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.

Only people with full stomachs become environmentalists.

... science demands a terrible price - that we accept what experiments tell us about the universe, whether we like it or not.

The village is coming back, like it or not.

But there is one more reason to protect other species. One seldom if ever mentioned. Perhaps we are the first to talk and think and build and aspire, but we may not be the last. Others may follow us in this adventure. Some day we may be judged by just how well we served, when alone we were Earth’s caretakers.

Even in dying, a Thennanin ship was reputed to be not worth putting out of its misery. In battle they were slow, unmaneuverable—and as hard to disable permanently as a cockroach.

Responsibility was our cruel mooring....

The three basic material rights -- continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness.