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“You can’t honor the past if you don’t know what that past is. I would much rather know the truth than live in ignorant bliss, even if it destroys all I’ve come to believe. Tradition isn’t always honorable.
To venerate women, they said, is to diminish men. How one can lead to the other is a question they have not yet answered,
There’s nothing more useless than the devout follower of a dead god, unless it’s the dead god himself.”
“To be perfect without suffering means no change. If you know neither hurt nor hardship, then you will not know the strength they can summon within a person. What is life’s meaning if you cannot distinguish between happiness and sorrow?”
It is a terrible thing to destroy a book in order to better live a lie.
“Because people tend to believe those who are in charge, no matter how ridiculous or corrupt they may be,”
“But we have been conditioned to obey authority in subtle manners, Zoya. You would be surprised at how very few actually speak up in the face of injustice.”
people often think the olden days are better than the ones they have to live through.
“The road to treachery and malice has always been cobbled with the intentions of those who thought to only do what was best.”
