John

“There is no such thing as a world without combat, no civilization which doesn't start off by laying down the rules for relations between people. But the rules are there for the weak. The strong man experiments to find out how far they can be stretched, he creates his own rules. You would like everything to be based on the goodwill and charity of one's fellow men. But if there is no private profit to be made, there will be no progress.”
― Henning Mankell, Kennedy's Brain

“Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“Jesus!"

"Are you hurt?"

"Jesus!"

"Walk down the hallway and come back when you have more vocabulary.”
― Craig Johnson, Death Without Company

“Our so-called leaders speak
With words they try to jail you
The subjugate the meek
But it's the rhetoric of failure”
― Sting