# Quote — Glen Cook, Cold Copper Tears

> People don’t want to be told to do right. They don’t really want to do right. They want to do whatever they want—and whine that it’s not fair, it’s not their fault, when it comes time to pay the piper.

- Author: [Glen Cook](https://www.leafyquotes.com/glen-cook.md)
- Book: [Cold Copper Tears](https://www.leafyquotes.com/glen-cook/cold-copper-tears.md)
- Page: 162
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Glen_Cook#Cold_Copper_Tears_(1988)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/glen-cook/cold-copper-tears/people-dont-want

## More from this book

> We Loghyr have never found proof of the existence of any gods. Neither have we disproved their existence, although logic militates against it. They are not necessary to explain anything. Nature does not provide that which is not needed.

p. 188 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/glen-cook/cold-copper-tears/we-loghyr-have.md)

> Hano may not fulfill your prescription for such a being. So call him Prime Mover or just the force that set time and matter in motion.
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> He must be because we need him to be. And he must be what we need him to be. It is a philosophical argument difficult to grasp for we who live among obdurately hard surfaces and sharp edges that ignore our wishes, but the observer invariably affects the phenomenon. In this context, God—by whatever name—is, and is constrained to be, whatever we believe him to be.

p. 236 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/glen-cook/cold-copper-tears/hano-may-not.md)

> Really? It made a crazy sense. Maybe perfect sense to somebody in the religion business.

p. 235 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/glen-cook/cold-copper-tears/really-it-made.md)