Purple and Black Quotes

“It's sheer spitefulness to allow mortals to love because everybody dies but the love they cause to be in others doesn't die with them. Therefore love is the cause of the greatest sorrow therefore love is the greatest evil.”
― K.J. Parker, Purple and Black

“Is it acceptable to wage war in order to bring peace; to murder a bad king in order to replace him with a good one; to oppress in order to liberate; to damn ourselves in the cause of our redemption? Can an objectively bad act be subjectively good; and if so, can there be any objectivity in morality? But if we withdraw our hand and, fearing to transgress, abstain from action and thereby suffer the wrong to be perpetuated, is that not also a misdeed--worse, arguably, since compounded with the sins of prevarication and cowardice?”
― K.J. Parker, Purple and Black

“拉玛卡斯正是成就主观善举的客观恶行。”
― K.J. Parker, Purple and Black

“一个人可以背叛他的荣誉、祖国和朋友，但他绝不会背叛两人对于色情文学的共同热爱。”
― K.J. Parker, Purple and Black

“人生苦短，时间不能全浪费在后勤部身上。”
― K.J. Parker, Purple and Black