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The Soldier had a quote: Steel demands to be used. Which, according to him, meant that any weapon aches for violence and sooner or later that ache will pervade the one who owns it, until at last the weapon owns them.
“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
― Foundation
― Foundation
“The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.”
― Crome Yellow
― Crome Yellow
“They were scientists enough to admit that they were wrong.”
― Foundation
― Foundation
“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
― Foundation
― Foundation
Jesse’s 2025 Year in Books
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