With eternity to draw on there could be no reason for hurrying - 'hurry' was not a concept in Martian.

Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that it is eight times as good as any other method the human race has ever tried.

You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.

Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.

Around the time of the Terran Caesar Augustus, a Martian artist had been composing a work of art. It could have been called a poem, a musical opus, or a philosophical treatise; it was a series of emotions arranged in tragic, logical necessity. Since it could be experienced by a human only in the sense in which a man blind from birth might have a sunset explained to him, it does not matter which category it be assigned.

Once a man gets a reputation as a liar, he might as well be struck dumb, for people do not listen to the wind.

Why don't they make more science fiction movies? The answer to any question starting, Why don't they- is almost always, Money.