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“Morality is a luxury those of us born to be chewed up and spat out simply cannot afford.”
A revolution is always a tragedy, a destructive force unleashed by those stripped of every last option for peace. There’s not a revolutionary in history who doesn’t wish they could’ve gotten what they wanted within the world order they knew, but you cannot reform a system designed to keep power out of your hands.
“If to exploit is an element of human nature,” Qin Zheng lifts his arms as the clash repeats over and over, “then this, to resist exploitation, is also human nature. No exploiter has ever lived in peace without their weapons, their soldiers, and their propaganda and lies.
Every oppressor, through their denial of humanity, sows the seed of their own destruction.”
After all, a society that takes care of its own does not produce children who grow up dreaming of burning it down.”
“The way to free women isn’t by demanding they adapt to the traits men are praised for.
We were born to be chewed up and spat out. We broke the teeth instead.”
Those like us were not meant to be kind. We were born to rage and burn and destroy all that must be destroyed, so that maybe, one day, much better people than us can live in a world where they’re rewarded for their kindness instead of having it twisted to bind them.
