Quotes from L.E. Modesitt Jr.

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

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

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

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