# Quote — Iain M. Banks, Inversions

> The only sin is selfishness.

- Author: [Iain M. Banks](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks.md)
- Book: [Inversions](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/inversions.md)
- Page: 1
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Iain_Banks#Inversions_(1998)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/inversions/the-only-sin

## More from this book

> Pain, or even just discomfort, is like the warning sent by a frontier guard, sir. You are free to choose to ignore it, but you should not be unduly surprised if you are subsequently over-run by invaders.

p. 51 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/inversions/pain-or-even.md)

> Truth, I have learned, differs for everybody. Just as no two people ever see a rainbow in exactly the same place—and yet both most certainly see it, while the person seemingly standing right underneath it does not see it at all—so truth is a question of where one stands, and the direction one is looking in at the time.

p. 22 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/inversions/truth-i-have.md)

> We only become beasts—we become worse than beasts—when we torment others.

p. 197 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/inversions/we-only-become.md)