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Freedom is dangerous, Cory, but it’s precious, too. You can’t just throw it away or let it slip away. You can’t sell it for bread and pottage.

— Octavia Butler Parable of the Sower (1993)

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If everyone could feel everyone else’s pain, who would torture?

Parable of the Sower (1993)

Life is getting better, but that won’t stop a war if politicians and business people decide it’s to their advantage to have one.

Parable of the Talents (1998)

Short-lived people, people who could die, did not know what enemies loneliness and boredom could be.

Wild Seed (1980)

You tend to resent people you’re afraid of.

Parable of the Sower (1993)

It’s better to teach people than to scare them, Lauren. If you scare them and nothing happens, they lose their fear, and you lose some of your authority with them.

Parable of the Sower (1993)

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