17 Quotes by Sue Burke

Equality is not a fact, like the length of days... Equality is an idea, a belief, like beauty.

Let’s remember to be supportive and listen, not debate. We’re here to solve a problem, not to win.

I am the biggest and most powerful creature on Pax, and the most dangerous, and I have made mistakes I cannot rectify. But I meant well. I meant greater happiness for all. I meant to create a new and different and better life. I thought I would not repeat the past. I failed.

Each of us needs to be what we are, perhaps even be more of what we are.

We must reward appropriate behavior until it becomes natural behavior.

I am glad I grew the humor root. I can endure unpleasant situations better.

Among these miseries was pollution, which caused disease. The Heavens saved us from war by means of disease, which blessed not one generation but hundreds. Where there was overcrowding, now there is space. Where there was competition, now there is cooperation. Where there was pollution, now there is a clean world. Where there was poverty, now there is wealth.

I isolate a grove from my root network for a moment and enjoy the night as a human might, small in size but intense in outlook, entirely and pleasurably alert to nothing beyond my immediate surroundings, a luxury I can take only for a moment, but it is amazing how being small is a qualitative rather than a quantitative difference.