Karl

“Power beyond great power allows honesty and compels those in such a society to demand it.”
― L.E. Modesitt Jr., Gravity Dreams

“You didn’t ask us about whether it was safe to take your troops out of the locial. You told us that was what you were doing. Your assumption was that Old Earth is perfectly safe unless you’re warned. Is deep space safe? Would you drop into the sun’s photosphere because no one warned you it would incinerate you? Nothing is perfectly safe. We don’t provide warning signs to protect you from yourselves. Try to remember that.”
― L.E. Modesitt Jr., Adiamante

“Power cannot be maintained and effectively exercised without a moral structure accepted and practiced by all because power attracts the corruptible and because corruption destroys consensus.”
― L.E. Modesitt Jr., Adiamante

“In religion, precise truth has almost no currency. True believers will kill and destroy to defend their inaccurate beliefs.”
― Glen Cook, The Many Deaths of the Black Company