Quotes About Mandos

#1. But her beauty was more than their beauty, and her sorrow deeper than their sorrows; and she knelt before Mandos and sang to him.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#2. You don't have to choose sides," he said. "Make
up your own mind and believe that.

Katie Kacvinsky

#3. If a Devil is one who dares, when others hold back, then I am happy to play the Devil in this Mystery, boy.

Neil Gaiman

#4. A ruler who discerning justice refuseth to it the sanction of law, demanding abnegation of rights and self-sacrifice, will not drive his subjects to these virtues, virtuous only if free, but by unnaturally making justice unlawful, will drive them rather to rebellion against all law.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#5. We may indeed in counsel point to the higher road, but we cannot compel any free creature to walk upon it. That leadeth to tyranny, which disfigureth good and maketh it seem hateful.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#6. A well ordered society would be one where the State only had a negative action, comparable to that of a rudder: a light pressure at the right moment to counteract the first suggestion of any loss of equilibrium.

Simone Weil

#7. I first had the thought about making a musical of 'Edwin Drood' as far back as 1971.

Rupert Holmes

#8. There are reasons people seek escape in books, and one of those reasons is that the boundary of what can happen is beyond what we do - or would want to see in real life.

James Patterson