“His absence will haunt their hallways, and he will be a space they can't fill. And then time will pass, and the hole will be gone, like when an organ is removed and the body's fluids flow into the space it leaves. Humans can't tolerate emptiness for long.”
“You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery.”
“Both tolerance and respect are empty virtues until we actually understand whatever it is we are supposed to be tolerating or respecting.”
“He had a reservoir of tolerance for pain. Finite, though. Pain would empty it, eventually.”
“Humanity would never tolerate it”