Chris

“In my experience, civilised men don’t like their justice kept so simple. They like to complicate things.”
― Mitchel Scanlon, Descent of Angels

“All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.”
― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

“What’s the first rule of common soldiering? Trooper Duarte?’ ‘Always assume that anyone in a position senior to you isn’t telling you everything?’ ‘That’s my boy. There’s more to this than meets the eye, so don’t get slack.”
― Dan Abnett, Legion

“No, my dear, ignorance and fear create the gods, enthusiasm and deceit adorn them, and human weakness worships them.”
― Graham McNeill, False Gods