“Court games aren't fair. They don't judge men by their worth, and they aren't about what's just. Guilty men can hold power their whole lives and be wept for when they pass. Innocent men can be spen...”

“There's ways you can trust an enemy you can't always trust a friend. An enemy's never going to betray your trust.”

“Im saying there is evil in the world, Master Kit said, hefting the box on his hip, and doubt is the weapon that guards against it.”

“I choose not to believe in any gods as an act of charity, Marcus said. Charity toward whom? Toward the gods. Seems rude to think they couldnt make a world better than this,”

“I think the world is often like that. Like what? Comic, but only at the right distance.”

“Death, however clearly foretold, still came unexpectedly.”

“Every evil starts with 15 volts.”

“My feeling about work is that it's an unnecessary evil, so I've always done my best to avoid it.”

“Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more.”

“While we are actually subjected to them, the 'moods' and 'spirits' of nature point no morals. Overwhelming gaiety, insupportable grandeur, sombre desolation are flung at you. Make what you can of t...”

“...[N]ature generally in the distribution of her capacities has adapted the means to the end... [so nature's] true destination must be to produce a will, not merely good as a means to something els...”

“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.”

“War is what happens when language fails.”

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”

“The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.”