Kiril

“Speaking of which, what’s your take on abortion?’ ‘Do you eat eggs?’ ‘Excuse me?’ ‘The unborn embryos of chickens, Samantha.”
― Steven Erikson, Rejoice

“But sometimes it seems to me that people just like to hold on to their grievances. Righteous indignation is like some kind of drug or religious mania, addictive and stupidifying.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, Aurora

“It is the legacy of most intelligent beings to revel in slaughter for a time,’ Haut replied. ‘In this we play at being gods. In this, we lie to ourselves with delusions of omnipotence. There is but one measure to the wisdom of a people, and that is the staying hand. Fail in restraint and murder thrives in your eyes, and all your claims to civilization ring hollow.”
― Steven Erikson, Forge of Darkness

“The servile will is always locked in a double bind: to have a will means the agent will indeed will various actions, following autonomous decisions made by a conscious mind; and yet at the same time this will is specified to be servile, and at the command of some other will that commands it. To attempt to obey both sources of willfulness is the double bind. All double binds lead to frustration, resentment, anger, rage, bad faith, bad fate.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, Aurora