Leckie — Ancillary Mercy

From: Quotes batch 12

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Edition: Orbit (2015)

On Society and Power

“It’s easy to say that justice is a noble thing, but in practice, it’s often just a way of deciding who gets to live and who has to die.” (p. 84)

On Identity and Autonomy

“The difference between a person and a thing is the ability to say ‘no.’ Once you lose that, your identity is just a record of what someone else did to you.” (p. 210)