20 quotes
Man has always tortured in the name of his gods and committed atrocities in the name of his culture.
Sideshow (1992)
“We Enforcers have a saying: ‘the right help helps, and enough help helps, but help that’s in time helps most.’”
Sideshow (1992)
“Love cannot be owed,” said the retreating shadow. “It can only be given.”
Sideshow (1992)
It is better to die than to be used by evil for evil’s purposes.
Sideshow (1992)
It takes a strong man to turn back from a bad choice.
Sideshow (1992)
Derbeck is a theocracy based on religious and political orthodoxy. Arbitrary executions and torture are integral to such systems.
Sideshow (1992)
“The show,” Aunt Sizzy was want to say, “may not have to go on, but we don’t buy groceries unless it does!”
Sideshow (1992)
Things are as they are, and no amount of wishful thinking will change them!
Sideshow (1992)
They parade their cruelty openly, calling it diplomacy, calling it expediency, as governments always have.
Sideshow (1992)
Evil comes from unchecked power.
Sideshow (1992)
Here priests and prophets are doing what priests and prophets have always done, forbidding their people to become anything except what they already are! No interference. God, what foolishness!
Sideshow (1992)
I meant the petitions to provoke thought, to create discussion, but I underestimated the inertia in the system. I forgot that inertia is what bureaucracies are all about!
Sideshow (1992)
The Ultimate Destiny of Man is to stop being only man.
Sideshow (1992)
Men, she thought, had always been able to seek holiness when they wanted to because some woman was back at home taking care of their obligations. That’s why most of the saints were men and why most of the women saints were virgins.
Sideshow (1992)
Whoever…whatever had done this was an evil person, an evil thing, and she, Fringe, would have to do whatever she could to set matters right, diversity be damned!
Sideshow (1992)
Afar, Legless God Orimar Breaze howled rage and resentment of this nonsense. There were only two classes of beings: adorers or persecutors.
Sideshow (1992)
“I don’t need you to believe. I can make you do what I say even if you don’t believe.” A sulky-sounding voice, this. “God doesn’t need to prove anything, not if god can make people do what god wants.”
Sideshow (1992)
“Oh, yes,” murmured Nela. “The only excuse we had for overpopulating our world was that it wouldn’t matter in heaven.” She tried to laugh but couldn’t manage it. The laugh turned into a sob.
Sideshow (1992)
“Such plagues are known to arise spontaneously on overcrowded planets,” Jory commented. “When any environment exceeds its carrying capacity, plagues begin to manifest themselves, though humans are always surprised when it happens.”
Sideshow (1992)
Jory continued in a lecturer’s tone. “Old women like us, Cafferty, are left here to die. It would not be fitting for them to die where men who don’t own them might look upon them—and of course their owners don’t want to look at them—so they die here, where none see them. The religion of Thrasis prohibits murder. They are merely given no food or water and left to the mercy of the Thrasian God.”
Sideshow (1992)