# Quote — David Eddings, The Redemption of Althalus

> Why do men always want to tamper with the natural order of things?
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> “When something breaks, we fix it, that’s all.”
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> What gave you the absurd idea that [the world]’s broken?
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> “It’s not the way it was before, Em. To our way of looking at things, that means that it’s broken.”
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> [...]
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> Change doesn’t necessarily mean improvement, Althalus. Change is just change. “Better” and “worse” are human definitions. The world changes all the time, and no amount of complaining’s going to stop it from changing.

- Author: [David Eddings](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-eddings.md)
- Book: [The Redemption of Althalus](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-eddings/the-redemption-of-althalus.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-eddings/the-redemption-of-althalus/why-do-men

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> “Sick, isn’t it?” Dhakan replied. “Our glorious, but slightly warped, leader hasn’t let him out of her sight since the day he was captured.”

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> “Surely you don’t agree with that apostate!”
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> “I was talking about his skill, not his message, Aleikon ... He’s good. There’s no question about that.”

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> “I’m pretty good at that. There were a lot of things I did when I was just a boy that I didn’t tell her about. I didn’t come right out and lie to her, of course. A boy should never lie to his mother, but now and then things sort of slipped my mind. You know how that can happen.”
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> “Oh, yes.” Althalus laughed. “Things have been slipping my mind for as long as I can remember.”

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