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Against a Dark Background ISBN 1-85723-179-1 (UK) ISBN 0-553-29225-0 (US).
Non-Culture Novels, Against a Dark Background (1993)

The King handed me his own sword! “You have full permission to use it on anyone who looks remotely like a physician.”
Источник: Culture series, Inversions (1998), Chapter 3 (p. 47)

Hamin waved the pipestem round the tables of people. “Rules and laws exist only because we take pleasure in doing what they forbid, but as long as most of the people obey such proscriptions most of the time, they have done their job; blind obedience would imply we are—ha!”—Hamin chuckled and pointed at the drone with the pipe—“no more than robots!”
Источник: Culture series, The Player of Games (1988), Chapter 2 (p. 279).

“State of the Art” (p. 84)
Short fiction, The State of the Art (1991)

“So, because I don’t have what I think of as superstitions, because I believe we just happen to exist, and believe in... science, evolution, whatever; I’m not as... worthy as somebody who has faith in an ancient book and a cruel, desert God?”
Источник: Short fiction, The State of the Art (1991) “Piece” (p. 73)

“Those are the closest words. There is an undeniable elation in causing mayhem, in bringing about such massive destruction. As for feeling pleased, I felt pleasure that some of those who died did so because they were stupid enough to believe in gods or afterlives that do not exist, even though I felt a terrible sorrow for them as they died in their ignorance and thanks to their folly.”
Источник: Culture series, Look to Windward (2000), Chapter 13 “Some Ways of Dying” (p. 315)

“Well, that is always a lie, or a sign you are fighting for an unworthy cause, or still have a very long way to develop civilisationally.”
Источник: Culture series, Look to Windward (2000), Chapter 13 “Some Ways of Dying” (p. 312)

“I’m always serious, never more so than when I’m being flippant.”
Источник: Culture series, Look to Windward (2000), Chapter 11 “Absence of Gravitas” (p. 231)

“Then you’re simply ignorant rather than malevolent. Congratulations.”
Источник: Culture series, Look to Windward (2000), Chapter 11 “Absence of Gravitas” (p. 231)

Источник: Culture series, Look to Windward (2000), Chapter 8c “The Memory of Running” (p. 198)

“Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar. Therefore, immediacy.”
Culture series, Look to Windward (2000), Chapter 8b “Dirigible” (p. 176)

Источник: Culture series, Look to Windward (2000), Chapter 8a “The Retreat at Cadracet” (p. 154)

First sentence of the novel
Источник: Non-Culture Novels, Transition (2009)

Источник: Culture series, Matter (2008), Chapter 19 “Dispatches” (p. 357)

Источник: Culture series, Matter (2008), Chapter 18 “The Current Emergency” (p. 333)

Источник: Culture series, Matter (2008), Chapter 17 “Departures” (p. 305)
Контексте: On this purely practical issue he judged massacre wasteful and even contrary as a method of control.

Источник: Culture series, Matter (2008), Chapter 10 “A Certain Lack” (p. 167)

Источник: Culture series, Matter (2008), Chapter 27 “The Core” (p. 551)