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Patience is the better part of valor. And obedience the better part of humanity.
“Death isn’t empty like you say it is. Emptiness is life without freedom, Darrow. Emptiness is living chained by fear, fear of loss, of death.
“Golds structure everything to make their own lives easier. They have shows produced to entertain and placate the masses. They give monies and handouts to make generations dependent on the seventh day of each new Earth month. They create goods to grant us a semblance of liberty. If violence is the Gold sport, manipulation is their art form.”
“In the densest places of man, humanity most easily breaks down,” he says.
“Society has three stages: Savagery, Ascendance, Decadence. The great rise because of Savagery. They rule in Ascendance. They fall because of their own Decadence.”
“Even the nations of Earth grew jealous of one another. The United States of America exacted this idea of equality through force. And when the nations united, the Americans were surprised to find that they were disliked! The Masses are jealous!
I am Darwin’s scythe.
He disagrees with the rules, but he follows them. It is possible. I can do the same until I have power enough to change them.
We don’t care if you’re as ruthless as Vlad Dracula. He still lost.
I miss the small cot I used to share with Eo. She’s been dead now longer than we were married. I’m surprised how much it hurts to realize that.
Words are a weapon stronger than he knows. And songs are even greater. The words wake the mind. The melody wakes the heart.
