“But that was civilisation, so far as Logen could tell. People with nothing better to do, dreaming up ways to make easy things difficult.”

“That, as far as she could tell, was the purpose of the religion she had been brought up in: it made people feel better when really horrible things happened, and it offered a repertoire of ceremonies that were used to add a touch of class to such goings-on as shacking up with someone and throwing dirt on a corpse. None of which especially bothered Zula or made her doubt its worthwhileness. Making sad people feel better was a fine thing to do.”

“It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.”

“The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil. ”

“To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.”

“Nothing is an easy thing to feel but a difficult thing to express (pg 20).”