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“I give dignity second place to expedience,” said Cugel.”
― Cugel: The Skybreak Spatterlight
― Cugel: The Skybreak Spatterlight
“You would absolve your Gods of guilt?” Tariq said, sounding surprised.
“You would absolve humanity of responsibility?” Amadeus asked, scornful. “The deferral of consequence to higher power is the deepest form of moral cowardice conceivable. Even your precious Book agrees, Pilgrim – we have a choice.”
― A Practical Guide to Evil V
“You would absolve humanity of responsibility?” Amadeus asked, scornful. “The deferral of consequence to higher power is the deepest form of moral cowardice conceivable. Even your precious Book agrees, Pilgrim – we have a choice.”
― A Practical Guide to Evil V
“Law cannot reach where enforcement will not follow.”
― Demon Princes
― Demon Princes
“One of the most useful skills advocates can develop is a sincere satisfaction in changing their mind, putting the goal of effectiveness before the goal of having been correct.”
― The End of Animal Farming: How Scientists, Entrepreneurs, and Activists Are Building an Animal-Free Food System
― The End of Animal Farming: How Scientists, Entrepreneurs, and Activists Are Building an Animal-Free Food System
“If a man, holding a belief which he was taught in childhood or persuaded of afterwards, keeps down and pushes away any doubts which arise about it in his mind, purposely avoids the reading of books and the company of men that call in question or discuss it, and regards as impious those questions which cannot easily be asked without disturbing it—the life of that man is one long sin against mankind.”
― The Ethics of Belief
― The Ethics of Belief
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