Mandos Quotes

“We may indeed in counsel point to the higher road, but we cannot compel any free creature to walk upon it. That leadeth to tyranny, which disfigureth good and maketh it seem hateful.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, Morgoth's Ring

“Here ends the SILMARILLION. If it has passed from the high and the beautiful to darkness and ruin, that was of old the fate of Arda Marred; and if any change shall come and the Marring be amended, Manwë and Varda may know; but they have not revealed it, and it is not declared in the dooms of Mandos.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion

“A ruler who discerning justice refuseth to it the sanction of law, demanding abnegation of rights and self-sacrifice, will not drive his subjects to these virtues, virtuous only if free, but by unnaturally making justice unlawful, will drive them rather to rebellion against all law.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, Morgoth's Ring

“Para que una orden pueda ser fielmente cumplida es preciso que la persona que la da sepa que es realizable”
― Lev Tolstoi, War and Peace