Ordermaster Quotes

“Never mistake law for justice. Justice is an ideal, and law is a tool.”
― L.E. Modesitt Jr., Ordermaster

“get as greedy and as upset as the next person when things don’t go my way. You remind yourself of that, and don’t expect people to do more at their best than you at your worst, and you’ll be pleasantly surprised in life. People are people. Those who expect goodness from everyone all the time—they’re the ones who die bitter and unhappy.”
― L.E. Modesitt Jr., Ordermaster

“When people talked about truth, there was a righteousness in their words, a belief that the truth was absolutely the way they saw it. That was what the book had meant, and that was why revealing what in fact had happened or what someone believed could be so dangerous. It was not because of the rightness of what was revealed, but because revealing that kind of truth showed people’s weaknesses. So often what one person saw as truth was another person’s failing.”
― L.E. Modesitt Jr., Ordermaster