“Only children are intolerant of conventions. They are indispensable to an organized civilization, like discipline to an army, or foundations to a bu… - Jack Vance

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“Only children are intolerant of conventions. They are indispensable to an organized civilization, like discipline to an army, or foundations to a building, or landmarks to a traveler. Without conventions civilization is a handful of water. An army without discipline is a mob. A building without foundations is rubble. A traveler without landmarks is lost.”
Lorcas stated that he opposed not all convention, but only those which he found irksome and pointless.