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Most people don’t believe something can happen until it already has. That’s not stupidity or weakness, that’s just human nature.
From 1973 onward, if nine intelligence analysts came to the same conclusion, it was the duty of the tenth to disagree.
“Fear,” he used to say, “fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe.”
Fear of aging, fear of loneliness, fear of poverty, fear of failure. Fear is the most basic emotion we have. Fear is primal. Fear sells.
You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices.
“The highest of distinctions is service to others.”
They were viewed very much like castles, I suppose: as crumbling, obsolete relics, with no real modern function other than as tourist attractions. But when the skies darkened and the nation called, both reawoke to the meaning of their existence. One shielded our bodies, the other, our souls.
The only way to quell any further “dangerous thought” was to replace speculation with hard facts.
It was a new society, a new nation, refugees from all over the world uniting under the common flag of survival.
I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears.
The monsters that rose from the dead, they are nothing compared to the ones we carry in our hearts.
Be nice if that was the lesson people took from all this misery. We’re all in this together, so pitch in and do your job.
“One cannot cross a river without getting wet.”
