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Quotes from Carnival — Elizabeth Bear

born 1971 United States

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He wouldn’t be much of a diplomat if he couldn’t lie with a straight face.

Carnival (2006)

Strike two for Utopia. The problem with the damned things always comes when you try to introduce actual people into your philosophical constructs.

Carnival (2006)

Any government founded on a political or religious agenda more elaborate than “protect the weak, temper the strong” is doomed to tyranny.

Carnival (2006)

There were idiots on every planet who considered possession more important than morality.

Carnival (2006)

Kusanagi-Jones was long past feeling guilt about lying. Conscience was one of the first things to go. If he’d ever had much of one to begin with, the job had burned it out.

Carnival (2006)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Elizabeth Bear (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.