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3 Lois McMaster Bujold Quotes on Authority

Lois McMaster Bujold quotes on authority

  1. Any community's arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity.

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  2. It is always easier to get forgiveness than permission

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  3. If it ever came down to exerting power by force, it would mean I'd already lost it.

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