(Random things said with no other place to go, so I shall save them and post them in eights from time to time.)
Good, in the moral sense, is difficult and may be impossible to define objectively. I prefer to concern myself with ethical correctness, which is at least calculable.
Ianna Quendocius, "Scientific Ethics"
The Empire shall demand, and the citizen-shareholder manifest, neither submission nor sedition.
Valentia I Amanyr
Much like "pansexual", "omnivorous" is an extremely poorly-shaped word for a universe as large as ours.
opening lecture, Nutrition 101
And this is Great-Aunt Flavia's alchemical laboratory... no, don't go in, it's still on fire...
meeting the in-laws at home Eume
We've never had a civil war, ourselves. After all, it just wouldn't be civil.
Olbria Amanyr, deploying smug grenades
There was always "Anti-Terrorist Drill", where we had to catch a terrorist who had infiltrated the ship running around disguised. Then terrorists boarded one of our ships during an anti-terrorist drill and used it as cover, so now we have turned some of them into surprise "Anti-Terrorist-During-Anti-Terrorist-Drill Drills". Scuttlebutt has it that the Captain is now preemptively designing "Anti-Terrorist-During² Drills". Let's hope it never happens any more recursively than that...
overheard at the Tin-Can Club Palaxias (Imperial Core)
Do with them? My dear chap, why should we do anything with them? We leave them alone to do whatever they see fit... Why, do you think there's something worse that we could do with them?
Sen. Ashíär Inurian, Universal Indifference Society
Whatever your new drinking buddies told you, there is no Liberty Day holiday in the Empire. Why not? Because here, EVERY DAY is LIBERTY DAY!
overheard in a bar Seranth Ring Station
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://eldraeverse.com/2025/08/09/quotables-i