“He manages a sad smile. “An omission is not the same thing as a lie, Miss Bishop. It’s a manipulation.”
― The Archived
― The Archived
“The problem isn't who is in charge. It's what is in charge. The problem is that people are encouraged to function as machines. Or, actually, as mechanisms. Human emotion and sympathy are unprofessional. They are inappropriate to the exercise of reason. Everything which makes people good - makes them human - is ruled out. The system doesn't care about people, but we treat it as if it were one of us, as if it were the sum of our goods and not the product of our least admirable compromises.”
― The Gone-Away World
― The Gone-Away World
“Everything is valuable, in its own way. Everything is full of history.”
― The Archived
― The Archived
“It takes at least three assassination attempts to scare me off. And even then, if there are baked goods involved, I might come back.”
― The Archived
― The Archived
“If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.”
― The Shockwave Rider
― The Shockwave Rider
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