“I was trying to foment a little dissension.' He paused. 'No, that's too flippant. How about trying to make the system less warlike—injecting a little love?' He snorted. 'Through violence, of course, like all religious reformers.” — L.E. Modesitt Jr Copy Share Image
Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense. — L.E. Modesitt Jr Copy Share Image
Without power, knowledge is useless. without knowledge, faith is tyranny. Without understanding, humanity is blind, and without all four, it is doomed. — L.E. Modesitt Jr Copy Share Image
“love no one until you can love yourself, for love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself… — L.E. Modesitt Jr Copy Share Image
“It’s often hard to consider the future when you are struggling with the present,” — L.E. Modesitt Jr Copy Share Image
“Too often, no matter what simpering savants say, there is no real choice. Not if life is to have meaning.” — L.E. Modesitt Jr Copy Share Image
“some people learned only from what they experienced personally.” — L.E. Modesitt Jr Copy Share Image
Hatred is a form of faith, distilled by passion to remove all rationality. — L.E. Modesitt Jr Copy Share Image
“one of the ways to be successful in war is to make your enemies make all the gallant but useless sacrifices…” — L.E. Modesitt Jr Copy Share Image
“...there being a god, that god must be worshiped. Worship means raising the god above the individual, and liturgies often make the point that the individual is less than nothing compared to the deity. If this be done, then, when the god is invoked, the individual has so little worth that he or she may be sacrificed for the needs… — L.E. Modesitt Jr Copy Share
