We aimed for no more than to have dominion over every creature that moved upon the earth. And so it came to pass that we stepped down there on a place we believed unformed, where only darkness moved on the face of the waters. Now you laugh, day and night, while you gnaw on my bones. But what else could we have thought? Only that it began and ended with us. What do we know, even now? Ask the children. Look at what they grew up to be. We can only speak of the things we carried with us, and the things we took away.
Barbara KingsolverWhen moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke.
Barbara KingsolverThis is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
Barbara KingsolverAll of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.
Barbara Kingsolver