But change proves that you are still alive. Change often measures our tolerance for folk different from ourselves. Can we accept their languages, their customs, their garments, and their foods into our own lives? If we can, then we form bonds, bonds that make wars less likely. If we cannot, if we believe that we must do things as we have always done them, then we must either fight to remain as we are, or die
The clothes you're wearing, the room, the house, the city that you're in. Everything in it started out in the human imagination. Your lives, your personalities, your whole world. All invented. All made up. All the wars, the romances. The masterpieces and the machines. And there's nothing here but a funny little twist of amino acids, playing a marvelous game of pretend.
"For now. But if I ever decide you're useless, you are a dead man." To be killed by you is to be desired more than a life excluded from your service." Bravo." Her Imperial Viciousness laughed with genuine feeling. "Bra-vo!"
"Well now," the scholar went on, "I'm just an old fuddy-duddy who could use a tan, so you needn't grant my opinion any authority, but I consider the queendom lucky that a handful of Milliners and their children lived incognito among the population during Redd's tyranny."
Only the previous day, Arch had found him in a spirit-dance corral, blistering the creatures to the point of death, such was his need to touch and destroy.
No sound, once made, is ever truly lost. In electric clouds, all are safely trapped, and with a touch, if we find them, we can recapture those echoes of sad, forgotten wars, long summers, and sweet autumns.
Taciau prisiklauses austru daktaro kalbu apie kolumbietisku kvaisalu nauda, galiu pasakyti, kad religija yra ir kokainas liaudziai, nes butent ji skatino ir tebeskatina karus, kitatikiu skerdynes, tai tinka krikscionims, musulmonams bei kitiems stabmeldziams, ir jei afrikieciai seniau galabydavo tik vieni kitus, tai misionieriai atverte juos padare koloniju kariunais, tinkamais mirti pirmose linijose, o uzemus miesta zaginti baltaodes moteris. Zmones niekada su tokiu atsidavimu ir ikarsciu nepridirba tiek blogo, kiek padaro is religiniu isitikinimu.
Her zaman baska bir savas cikar, Robert. Kokleri hicbir zaman tamamen kazinmaz. Savaslari ne alevlendirir? Guc arzusu, insan dogasinin belkemigi. Siddet tehdidi, siddet korkusu ya da siddetin kendisi bu dehset verici arzunun aracidir. Guc arzusunu yatak odalarinda, mutfaklarda, fabrikalarda, sendikalarda ve devletlerin sinirlarinda gorebilirsin. Bunu iyi dinle ve aklina yaz. Ulus-devlet insan dogasinin sisirilip devasa boyutlara getirilmis halidir, o kadar. Iste bu yuzden, uluslar kanunlari siddetle yazilmis birimlerdir. Her zaman da oyleydiler, her zaman da oyle olacaklar. Savas, Robert, insanligin iki ebedi dostundan biridir.