Octavia E. Butler citáty

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„Strom nemôže rásť v tieni svojich rodičov.“

„Fénix musí najprv zhorieť, aby mohol povstať z vlastného popola.“

„Inteligencia vám umožňuje popierať fakty, ktoré sa vám nepáčia.“

„Niekedy sa človek musí stať pánom, aby sa nestal otrokom.“

„Nerodíme sa s cieľom, ale s potenciálom.“

“I got up to leave. There was nothing more to be said. He had asked for what he knew I could not give, and I had refused.”

“She found more gratification in teaching one willing student than a dozen resentful ones.”

“We can see that our Councils aren’t games like the tribunals humans have. The work of a Council of Judgment is to learn the truth and then decide what to do about it within our law. It isn’t about following laws so strictly that the guilty go unpunished or the innocent are made to suffer. It isn’t about protecting everyone’s rights. It’s about finding the truth, period, and then deciding what to do about it.”

“My ignorance wasn’t just annoying. It was dangerous.”

“You're truly free for the first time. What could be more difficult than that?”

“They can create something beautiful, useful, even something worthless. But they create. They don't destroy.”

“Who knows what we humans have that others might be willing to take in trade for a livable space on a world not our own.”

“Don’t you know everything? God smiled. “No, I outgrew that trick long ago. You can’t imagine how boring it was.””

“I wonder what a badge is, other than a license to steal.”

“You tend to resent people you’re afraid of.”

“The only way to prove to yourself that you have power is to use it.”

“If everyone could feel everyone else’s pain, who would torture?”

“It’s better to teach people than to scare them, Lauren. If you scare them and nothing happens, they lose their fear, and you lose some of your authority with them.”

“People have changed the climate of the world. Now they’re waiting for the old days to come back’.”

“Sometimes I write to keep from going crazy. There’s a world of things I don’t feel free to talk to anyone about.”

“People here in the neighborhood are saying she had no business going to Mars, anyway. All that money wasted on another crazy space trip when so many people here on earth can’t afford water, food, or shelter”