“why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they need the most”

“Human beings need to watch out for reasonless niceness too. It's never reasonless and its reason's not usually nice.”

“Dogs hate foxes. Nazis hate Jews. Hate doesn’t need a why. Who or even what is ample.”

“Why fight the 'natural' (oh, weaselly word!) order of things? Why? Because of this--one fine day, a purely predatory world shall consume itself. In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.”

“I...asked why purebloods despised me so. He replied, 'What if the difference between social strata stem not from genomics or inherent xcellence or even dollars, but merely differences in knowledge? Would this not mean the whole Pyramid is built on shifting sands?... fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' consciences; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding up the mirror”

“Perhaps those deprived of beauty perceive it most instinctively.”

“What is it that ties shapes of land to the human heart, Mo?”