"Obedience is not a virtue. I wanted to please everyone but myself, and I had to lose everything to learn that lesson. For my pride I had to lie in a glass coffin for twenty years...By the time I was released, I understood I rescued myself" ~ The 10th Kingdom novelization (Snow White to Virginia)

"HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.
'Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little–’
YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING THE LIITLE LIES.
‘So we can believe the big ones?’
YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.
‘They’re not the same at all!’
YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET-- Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.
'Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point...'
MY POINT EXACTLY" ~ from The Hogfather by Terry Pratchett (Death and Susan)

"My captain doesn't care about any of that! Whether you're a monster...a cyborg...a demon...a pervert...a pessimist...He's got all sorts under his command!!! He doesn't have to force corpses that can't resist to do his bidding!!!" ~ One Piece ch.496 "Show Yourself, Strawhat Crew!" (Chopper to Hogback)

“‘We have no right to distress any of God’s creatures without a very good reason; we call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but do not suffer less because they have no words’” (211). ~from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell