Alex

“God is a shameless old gambler. He has abandoned us!”
― Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem

“The human race is an evil species. Human civilization has committed unforgivable crimes against the Earth and must be punished.”
― Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem

“Trust,” the young man said. “Yes. But against— Against them?— Gelluk’s gone. Maybe Losen will fall now. Will it make any difference? Will the slaves go free? Will beggars eat? Will justice be done? I think there’s an evil in us, in humankind. Trust denies it. Leaps across it. Leaps the chasm. But it’s there. And everything we do finally serves evil, because that’s what we are. Greed and cruelty. I look at the world, at the forests and the mountain here, the sky, and it’s all right, as it should be. But we aren’t. People aren’t. We’re wrong. We do wrong. No animal does wrong. How could they? But we can, and we do. And we never stop.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Tales from Earthsea

“Like many clownish”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Cage of Souls