It’s hard to talk like a human being when one hasn’t been treated like one for years! - Sheri S. Tepper

It went on, “If you accuse, then you must judge.”
“You let your accusers be your judges?” asked Peter, astounded.
“Who else should be satisfied?” it asked. “If one’s accusers cannot be satisfied, what is justice?”
“One’s accusers might be mad,” Peter suggested, very unwisely I thought, considering where we were. “Mad, and incapable of being satisfied.”

It is far more important to establish a civil and orderly society than it is to pander to abusive cultural and religious artifacts.

Parasites, hissed Aunt Six, just loud enough that he could not fail to hear. "No skills of their own, so they must live by preventing others from using common sense."