Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.

—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...

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You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

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Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

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Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

An honor is not diminished for being shared.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

More quotations tagged with “justice”

If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.

—J. R. R. Tolkien

Under a government which imprisons unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

Liberty, equality—bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.

—Henry David Thoreau

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

—Henri-Frederic Amiel

Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.

—Groucho Marx

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