from The Wine of Violence, James Morrow

“On
Earth, where his remotest forebears lived, a person could be indisputably
responsible for the deaths of thousands and still go down in the history books
as some sort of great hero. … Why, he wanted to know, were the names of Samson,
Napoleon, Joan of Arc, Ulysses S. Grant, and Julius Caesar not obscenities,
spoken after dark in whispers of revulsion and shame?”  p17-80

“The
miners … expected retirement benefits from their Rationalist employer, John
Donaldson.  Mr. Donaldson went home, did
the arithmetic, and called out the police because it was cheaper.

“The
strikers, who had enthusiasm, attacked the police, who had yeastguns.  The enthusiasm made martyrs; the guns,
holes.”  p109-110