Quotes from book

The Last Castle

“You emphasize morality. But the ultimate basis of morality is survival. What promotes survival is good; what induces mortifaction is bad.”

Jack Vance book The Last Castle

Source: The Last Castle (1966), Chapter 3, section 2

“In the end, death came uniformly to all, and all extracted as much satisfaction from their dying as this essentially graceless process could afford.”

Jack Vance book The Last Castle

Source: The Last Castle (1966), Chapter 1, section 1

“Claghorn had long insisted that no human condition endured forever, with the corollary that the more complicated such a condition, the greater its susceptibility to change.”

Jack Vance book The Last Castle

Source: The Last Castle (1966), Chapter 2, section 1

“The life we’ve been leading couldn’t last forever. It’s a wonder it lasted as long as it did.”

Jack Vance book The Last Castle

Source: The Last Castle (1966), Chapter 2, section 1

“I know that the history of man is not his technical triumphs, his kills, his victories. It is a composite, a mosaic of a trillion pieces, the account of each man’s accommodation with his conscience. This is the true history of the race.”

Jack Vance book The Last Castle

Source: The Last Castle (1966), Chapter 3, section 2