Shane

“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”
― Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents

“any event largely organized by elementary school teachers was likely to come off extremely well from a logistical and crowd-control standpoint.”
― Neal Stephenson, Seveneves

“[T]otalitarian war destroys spiritual values. One feels that everywhere. If it destroyed material values, the people, whose thinking is mostly limited by their perceptions, would know how and against what to defend themselves. As it is, the inner destruction has no correlative in the perceived world of things, of matter. So they fail to grasp the process and the possible means of countering it or renewing themselves.”
― Helmuth James von Moltke

“Being brave was tiring. No wonder everybody in Conley Holler looked faded and worn out.”
― Lisa Lewis Tyre, Hope in the Holler