“[…] she was feeling something new here. Or something old that she had long buried. [It] reminded her that she was, first and foremost, a human living on a planet. Almost everything she had done in her life […] – almost everything she had bought and worked for and consumed – had taken her further away from understanding that she and all humans were really just one of nine million species.” Midnight Library

Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots. Guns, Germs And Steel

“In my eyes, every murderous case loses its appeal. No matter how beautiful it is, it turns ugly, deteriorates and degrades. No case that allies with death can be justified.” Samarkand

“And justice lies in appearance, at least in this world, at least in the eyes of the multitude.” Leo Africanus