# Quote — Pierce Brown, Morning Star

> "What kind of parent would want their children to have servants?" he asks, disgusted by the idea. "The moment a child thinks it is entitled to anything, they think they deserve everything. Why do you think the Core is such a Babylon? Because it's never been told no.
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> "Look at the Institute you attended. Sexual slavery, murder, cannibalism of fellow Golds?" He shakes his head. "Barbaric. It's not what the Ancestors intended. But the Coreworlders are so desensitized to violence they've forgotten it's to have a purpose. Violence is a tool. It is meant to shock. To change. Instead, they normalize and celebrate it. And create a culture of exploitation where they are so entitled to sex and power that when they are told no, they pull a sword and do as they like."

- Author: [Pierce Brown](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pierce-brown.md)
- Book: [Morning Star](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pierce-brown/morning-star.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pierce_Brown#Morning_Star_(2016)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/pierce-brown/morning-star/what-kind-of-parent

## More from this book

> When I looked up at my father as a boy, I thought being a man was having control. Being the master and commander of your own destiny. How could any boy know that freedom is lost the moment you become a man. Things start to count. To press in. Constricting slowly, inevitably, creating a cage of inconveniences and duties and deadlines and failed plans and lost friends. I'm tired of people doubting. Of people choosing to believe they know what is possible because of what has happened before.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pierce-brown/morning-star/when-i-looked.md)

> Yes. I'm alone.
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> I would have thought there to be worse fates than this, but now I know there are none. Man is no island. We need those who love us. We need those who hate us. We need others to tether us to life, to give us a reason to live, to feel.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pierce-brown/morning-star/yes-im-alone.md)

> How can I feel so melancholy for so terrible a past? Maybe it's just the nature of us, ever wishing for things that were and could be rather than things that are and will be.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pierce-brown/morning-star/how-can-i-feel.md)