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“Funny thing about those Middle Ages,” said Joseph. “They just keep coming back. Mortals keep thinking they’re in Modern Times, you know, they get all this neat technology and pass all these humanitarian laws, and then something happens: there’s an economic crisis, or science makes some discovery people can’t deal with. And boom, people go right back to burning Jews and selling pieces of the true Cross. Don’t you ever make the mistake of thinking that mortals want to live in a golden age. They hate thinking.”
― In the Garden of Iden: The First Company Novel
― In the Garden of Iden: The First Company Novel
“A society that has to burn witches to hold itself together is a society that has already failed, and just doesn't know it yet.”
― All the Birds in the Sky
― All the Birds in the Sky
“The best way I’ve ever summed up the war as I see it is that one side, our side, sees a foul as being against the rules, and if you do it too many times you have to be removed. The other side, Jimmy’s side, sees fouls as things you’re allowed to get caught doing several times, and if you don’t, you aren’t trying hard enough.”
― Off to Be the Wizard
― Off to Be the Wizard
“She was named Jocaminca fforkes, with two small 'f's - as if having two 'f's wasn't pretentious enough”
― The Constant Rabbit
― The Constant Rabbit
“But Senlin knew that while tyrants had many strengths, their weakness was generally the same. They were gullible. For the tyrant, there were no reigning facts, no universal systems of inquiry, no demonstrable truths. Because they preferred their own rationalization to reason, their dogma to discourse, the main means a tyrant had for testing another man’s integrity and loyalty were oaths and intuition. But since the tyrants had no choice but to teach everyone exactly what they wished to hear, they were simple to pander to and easy to fool.”
― The Hod King
― The Hod King
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