Booknerd Fraser

“Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factories, whose lives are filled with cause for rebellion, be taught that all is right as it is. And so, the schools, the churches, the popular literature taught that to be rich was a sign of superiority, to be poor a sign of personal failure, and that the only way upward for a poor person was to climb into the ranks of the rich by extraordinary effort and extraordinary luck.”
― Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present

“you’ve been everywhere and seen almost everything, so tell me – why did God let those English sink the Invincible Armada, if we’re in the right and they’re in the wrong?’ ‘What makes you think we’re in the right?’ ‘What? Because we’re here and we’re us and they’re there and they’re them,’ said Catalina. ‘To them,’ I said gently, ‘it’s the other way around.”
― Stephen Marlowe, The Death and Life of Miguel De Cervantes: A Novel