Kenneth

“You have an odd sense of morality, mistress.” “Don’t be stupid,” she said. “Every sense of morality is odd.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

“There’s no such thing as equal justice anywhere. It’s unsettling to a society when you try to achieve such a false balance.”
― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

“CUNNINGHAM: Who couldn’t want to appeal “eternal damnation”? JUDGE LITTLEFIELD: Someone who was aware of his own self-inflicted erosion of the capacity to be filled by Grace … Someone too prideful to ask for forgiveness even in the face of the fiery furnace. Or maybe, he don’t bother askin‘, ’uz he knows he don’t deserve it! CUNNINGHAM: Your Honor, the only person who needs forgiveness is the one who doesn’t deserve it. JUDGE LITTLEFIELD: Then let him ask! CUNNINGHAM: I’m asking for him!”
― Stephen Adly Guirgis, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot: A Play

“And he recognized that there was a deep emotional difference between history as recorded on shigawire and read at leisure, a deep difference between that kind of history and the history which one lived. This new living history which he felt gathering around him possessed a sense of plunging into an irreversible future.”
― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune