Rebecca

“The problem with that assumption is that once a man of honor sees what his leaders are doing is wrong, shouldn’t it be incumbent on him to do something about it?” Talamir asked the princess, who made a little grimace of impatience. “With the sorts of things that the Sunpriests have been doing, even the most devout worshiper of Vkandis is going to run out of excuses for their excesses.” “What if he can’t?” she asked. “Do something about it, I mean.”
― Mercedes Lackey, Exile's Honor

“Answers are terribly seductive. The simpler they are, the more seductive they become.”
― Mercedes Lackey, Exile's Honor

“Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?”
― Garth Nix, Sabriel

“Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms. […] If we cannot learn to actually enjoy those small differences, to take a positive delight in those small differences between our own kind, here on this planet, then we do not deserve to go out into space and meet the diversity that is almost certainly out there.”
― Gene Roddenberry