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In his eagerness to defer to Marya’s wishes, in his determination to admit and account for his own faults, he had failed to see the duke for what he truly was. There had been plenty of signs that the man’s character was driven by antipathy,
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“The human race will go marching into that conclusive dark, singing our ballads and telling our stories and embellishing our walls with loafing nudes because that is who we really are: creatures who’ve only begun to believe in the scarce beauty of ourselves, and just in time for the point to be moot.”
― The Fall of Babel
― The Fall of Babel
“But Senlin knew that while tyrants had many strengths, their weakness was generally the same. They were gullible. For the tyrant, there were no reigning facts, no universal systems of inquiry, no demonstrable truths. Because they preferred their own rationalization to reason, their dogma to discourse, the main means a tyrant had for testing another man’s integrity and loyalty were oaths and intuition. But since the tyrants had no choice but to teach everyone exactly what they wished to hear, they were simple to pander to and easy to fool.”
― The Hod King
― The Hod King
“Pretending that the fake is real only makes the real seem fake.”
― Invisible Planets: An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese SF in Translation
― Invisible Planets: An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese SF in Translation
“We had tens of thousands of ballistic missiles we could pop into low-earth orbit in the blink of an eye so we could obliterate each other on some future day when that perfect mix of nationalism, enmity, and stupidity convinced our kleptocrats that a dead planet was preferable to living under the yoke of some other culture’s facade of good governance.”
― Freedom's Fire
― Freedom's Fire
“In his eagerness to defer to Marya’s wishes, in his determination to admit and account for his own faults, he had failed to see the duke for what he truly was. There had been plenty of signs that the man’s character was driven by antipathy, entitlement, and the sort of insecurity that praise alone cannot sate, an insecurity that requires the suffering of others to be assuaged. Wilhelm’s contempt for institutions of learning and educated persons; his tolerance of violence and indifference toward injustice; his habit of mocking and tormenting everyone, even his friends—were all the hallmarks of a bully.”
― The Hod King
― The Hod King
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