18 quotes
If a person torturing and killing people is evil, why are gods who torture and kill people called good?
The Fresco (2000)
Whatever he thinks, it’s time you stopped enabling other people so you can enable yourself.
The Fresco (2000)
We always assume that living, breathing, sensible creatures want peace.
The Fresco (2000)
People don’t seem to rob bookstores much, more’s the pity for them.
The Fresco (2000)
Don’t you find that predators are those who most often assert absolute rights to personal freedoms?
The Fresco (2000)
The practice of diplomacy, I have found, is sometimes like eating soup with a fork: much activity yielding little nourishment.
The Fresco (2000)
It is far more important to establish a civil and orderly society than it is to pander to abusive cultural and religious artifacts.
The Fresco (2000)
The lustful who punish beauty would be wiser to control lust.
The Fresco (2000)
When agony is not present, no matter how imminent it looms, painful change must come from outside. This is a truth.
The Fresco (2000)
“It could be any way at all by the will of Aitun,” snapped Chiddy. Aitun lets everything happen that can happen! It is up to intelligence to select!”
The Fresco (2000)
As our sages have said, youth builds a universe with self at the center.
The Fresco (2000)
If the children die, well, say they, it is the will of their gods. I do not like such ways; certainly I would not follow such gods.
The Fresco (2000)
That is a phrase I had never heard before, dear Benita. Playing politics. It is like playing war, a game for degenerates. Statesmen should not “play” politics.
The Fresco (2000)
Military men! Damn it, they always thought in terms of hardware, black or white, our side or the other side. It was damned hard to get them to see gray at all, and getting them to tell dark gray from medium gray was impossible!
The Fresco (2000)
We would prefer to believe them, and we’ve gone along with them when they’ve told us the predators are a separate people, races that eat other intelligent life and who do not, therefore, eat Republicans. Or newsmen.
The Fresco (2000)
The world had been repeatedly swept by war and famine and plague when the population had been a quarter of what it was now! Less than a hundred years ago. Sparse population didn’t equal peace. It never had. All it meant were fewer casualties.
The Fresco (2000)
We have a saying, “Where one lives, all live; where one suffers, all suffer.” One, in our language, includes all living things. In your language someone has said, “No man is an island,” which encompasses the concept but which, by mentioning only mankind, misses the point.
The Fresco (2000)
One of the strangest things I have encountered on your world, dear Benita, is that many of your people have no idea who they really are but many ridiculous ideas about what they are expected to be, plus many religious convictions about what they should be, although nobody is! One should not want to be anything but what one is because it creates unhappiness.
The Fresco (2000)