Cristina

“It is intrinsically and absolutely wrong to set aside the duties of ethics because you believe that you, you alone, are smart enough to violate them.”
― Seth Dickinson, Exordia

“You know I’m not saying that. Please, assume my good faith. It’ll save time. The world is at stake.”

“For some of us there are bigger things than the world.”

“Like the mathematical truth of existence?”

“Like the fate of our souls. You keep saying, The world will end if you don’t do what I want. But maybe doing what you want is worse than the end of the world. Maybe that’s why we have religion, did you ever think that? So that we can do the right thing even when there’s no good worldly reason.”
― Seth Dickinson, Exordia

“That’s the problem with figuring shit out—eventually you run into someone who’d prefer all their shit remained thoroughly unfigured.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, The Tainted Cup

“But I am reluctant to assume maliciousness when incompetence is a better explanation”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, The Tainted Cup