L E Modesitt Jr Quotes

L. E. Modesitt Jr.

L. E. Modesitt Jr. is an American science fiction and fantasy author who has written over 75 novels. He is best known for the fantasy series The Saga of Recluce. (L E Modesitt Jr Quotes)

“Deities are invented by fallible and finite beings in the hope and desire to create immortal perfection; unfortunately, such deities only reflect their creators and inspire their followers to similar imperfections.”
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“Except for the occasional great person or hero, or tragedy, death has always been personal, affecting one individual and the handful of people who cared about that dead individual. The rest of society went on, and that had been true as far back as the ancient pyramids and great walls, and remained true, and would doubtless remain so into the far future.”
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“Freedom and ignorance are incapable of long coexistence.”
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“Hatred is a form of faith, distilled by passion to remove all rationality.”
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“He learned that some things that seemed to make little sense were senseless only from his point of view, not necessarily from someone else’s perspective.”
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“If you do good because you expect to be rewarded, it is greed.”
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“Intelligence is overrated by any species that has it, and that’s provable by the fact that all intelligent species are outlived by a factor of a hundred to one, if not a thousand to one, by nonintelligent species, who don’t have the brains or perversity to destroy themselves or their environments.”
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“Life and death are one. You have life, and life is death. Without death there is no meaning to life. Without life there is no death. Be content with what you have.”
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“Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.”
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“Most people did think that way, unable to look beyond the letter of the rules or what they believed.”
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“Never mistake law for justice. Justice is an ideal, and law is a tool.”
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“Power cannot be maintained and effectively exercised without a moral structure accepted and practiced by all because power attracts the corruptible and because corruption destroys consensus.”
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“Pretending that there isn’t a cost to maintaining what is good only results in matters getting worse.”
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“Rules are a useful guideline and generally should be heeded, but blindly following them eventually and inevitably leads to disaster.”
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“Someone in my country made a comment along the lines that solutions are always possible if you are willing to let someone else take the credit.”
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“The difference between an explanation and an excuse lies with the one receiving it.”
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“The difference between truth and honesty is the difference between the riverbed and the river.”
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“The only absolute truth is change, and death is the only way to stop change. Life is a series of judgments on changing situations, and no ideal, no belief fits every solution. Yet humans need to believe in something beyond themselves. Perhaps all intelligences do. If we do not act on higher motivations, then we can justify any action, no matter how horrible, as necessary for our survival.”
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“There are two sides to reality. There is what is, and there is what people believe. Seldom are they exactly the same.”
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“We all might be in less trouble if we did not speak, I sometimes think.”
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“Without power, knowledge is useless. without knowledge, faith is tyranny. Without understanding, humanity is blind, and without all four, it is doomed.”
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“Words evolve, perhaps more rapidly and tellingly than do their users, and the change in meanings reflects a society often more accurately than do the works of many historians.”
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“You cannot have a strong society if you pander to the unintelligent, the willing weak, and the unfortunates. The universe does not reward compassion, only survival and success.”
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