11 quotes
“This is not philosophy, this is reality. Will you please keep in mind what’s going on!”
Six Moon Dance (1998)
“You think staying in power is why they do it?”
“That’s usually the reason for arbitrary cruelty.”
Six Moon Dance (1998)
We all know men who are angry at everything, simply because they prefer to be angry at everything. Often, they self-destruct, and sometimes they take other people with them.
Six Moon Dance (1998)
Madame says when we focus on our anger, our vision begins to constrict. Soon we are caught up in fury, and we turn it upon everyone.
Six Moon Dance (1998)
Even our earliest espousers of human rights limit them to life, liberty, and the pursuit of satisfactions. They do not guarantee posterity or immortality.
Six Moon Dance (1998)
“Persons inside the group are ‘us.’ All significant entities outside the group, including females, are ‘them,’ and all of them are either property, prey, or opponents.”
Six Moon Dance (1998)
There is a class of person who cannot lead and will not be led. Such persons go their own way, uncorrupted by insight, unmitigated by experience. They do what they do, and usually they die of it, but they would rather die than cooperate with anyone else.
Six Moon Dance (1998)
“Punishment is not my business,” said Questioner. “As I have said to others, it never works anyhow. Putting right is my business.
Unfortunately, when things are put right, often the innocent suffer with the guilty.”
Six Moon Dance (1998)
Questioner I was melted down in the cataclysm known as the Flagian Miscalculation, somewhere out near the Bonfires of Hell. The Flagians’ attempt to prove that matter was illusory succeeded only in redistributing that matter rather widely.
Six Moon Dance (1998)
Mankind had always had a propensity for trying to govern the ungovernable and to control what was uncontrollable. Mankind had always relied upon laws and rules to direct those drives that did not care about laws or rules. Pragmatism had at last prevailed.
Six Moon Dance (1998)
Conflict acting on intelligence creates imagination. Faced with conflict, creatures are forced to imagine what will happen, where the next threat will come from. If there has never been conflict, imagination never develops. Wits arise in answer to danger, to pain, to tragedy. No one ever got smarter eating easy apples.
Six Moon Dance (1998)