The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

About Lois McMaster Bujold

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Lois McMaster Bujold ( boo-ZHOHLD; born November 2, 1949) is an American speculative fiction writer. She has won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, matching Robert A. Heinlein's record (not counting his Retro Hugos). Bujold is best known for her Vorkosigan Saga, a series of science fiction novels...

More quotations from Lois McMaster Bujold

There is no calamity greater than lavish desires.
There is no greater guilt than discontentment.
And there is no greater disaster than greed.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

Be gentle with the young.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

More quotations tagged with “duty”

When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first.

—Josiah Quincy

A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.

—Joseph F. Newton

Life is not so important as the duties of life.

—John Randolph

Duty is ours, results are God's.

—John Quincy Adams

How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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