166 Quotes by Robert Jackson Bennett

Every innovation – technological, sociological, or otherwise – begins as a crusade, organizes itself into a practical business, and then, over time, degrades into common exploitation.

Sigrud is a hammer in a world of nails, and he is satisfied knowing only that.

Remember – move thoughtfully, give freedom to others, and you’ll rarely do wrong, Sancia. I’ve learned that now. I wish I’d known it in life.

Is it ignorance if you don’t care to know it?” “Yes. That is almost the definition of ignorance, actually.

Killing echoes inside you. It never goes away. Maybe some who have killed don’t know that they’ve lost something, but they have.

I don’t think we can build much of a future,′ says Shara, ’without knowing the truth of the past. It’s time to be honest about what the world really was, and what it is now.

But you must know that if corruption is powerful enough, it’s not corruption at all – it’s law. Unspoken, unwritten, but law.

Peace is but the absence of war. War and conflict form the sea through which nation-states swim. Some who have had the fortune to find clear, calm waters believe otherwise. They have forgotten that war is momentum. War is natural. And war makes one strong.

There’s no such thing as a good death... It’s just a dull, stupid thing we all have to do eventually. To ask meaning of it is to ask meaning of a shadow.