“Who judges the judge who judges wrong?”
― Gail Carson Levine, Fairest
“Supposed I don’t want to redeem myself? Why should I fight to uphold the system that cast me out? I shall take pleasure in seeing it smashed.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
“We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist
“Being against evil doesn’t make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide… I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you’re fighting.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Islands in the Stream
“History was full of the bones of good men who’d followed bad orders in the hope that they could soften the blow. Oh, yes, there were worse things they could do, but most of them began right where they started following bad orders.”
― Terry Pratchett, Jingo
“It is better to be taught to think critically than to be told on what to believe.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest
“I want my spirituality to rid me of hate, not give me reason for it.”
― Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality