18 Quotes by L.E. Modesitt Jr.

Without power, knowledge is useless. without knowledge, faith is tyranny. Without understanding, humanity is blind, and without all four, it is doomed.

Humans were eventually irrational creatures gifted with the power of rationality.

Most people don’t care who rules, as long as their lives don’t change.

Minds, like parachutes, function better when open, but, like fists, they strike harder when closed.

Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.

No society that places the individual above itself will survive; but neither will any society that places the individual below itself.

If you do good because you expect to be rewarded, it is greed.

To that which is born, death is certain; to that which is dead, birth is certain.

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