Windwalker > Windwalker's Quotes

“Flidais clapped her hands in delight.
"Oh, I bet he nearly shat kine!"
That made me laugh - I hadn't heard that expression in a long, long time. I refrained from telling her that the modern expression would be "he had a cow", because I liked the original better.
"Yes, the kine he nearly shat would have fed several clans.”
― Kevin Hearne, Hounded

“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
― Voltaire

“Dare to think for yourself.”
― Voltaire

“Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.”
― Voltaire, Traité sur la tolérance, à l'occasion de la mort de Jean Calas

“No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.”
― Voltaire

“It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.”
― Voltaire

“Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.”
― Voltaire

“It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.”
― Voltaire

“Minds differ still more than faces.”
― Voltaire

“You are very harsh.'
'I have seen the world.”
― Voltaire, Candide

“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.”
― Kevin Alfred Strom

“What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.”
― Voltaire

“I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.”
― Evelyn Beatrice Hall, The Friends of Voltaire

“In every author, let us distinguish the man from his work.”
― Voltaire

“Definition: 'Love' is making a shot to the knees of a target 120 kilometres away using an Aratech sniper rifle with a tri-light scope. Statement: This definition, I am told, is subject to interpretation. Obviously, 'love' is a matter of odds. Not many meatbags could make such a shot, and strangely enough, not many meatbags would derive love from it. Yet for me, love is knowing your target, putting them in your targeting reticle, and together, achieving a singular purpose... against statistically long odds...”
― HK-47