The Greater Good Quotes

“My worst fear is that people will feel unheard, even if their opinions aren’t desirable. When people think of themselves as unheard, and their voices remain oppressed, they’ll speak in the only language in which all men are fluent: violence.”
― Seth Daniel Parker, The Greater Good: A Novel of Divided America

“They never asked themselves what they gained by trading income inequality for privilege and power inequality.”
― Seth Daniel Parker, The Greater Good: A Novel of Divided America

“Capitalism rewards the producers, and politicians don’t produce a single damned thing, yet they all end up wealthy. Explain that!”
― Seth Daniel Parker, The Greater Good: A Novel of Divided America

“The problem, though, was that Thomas had never before been taught by the teacher named failure. As the broken Thomas spent hours by the mural and hours more lying in bed that night trying to fuse his shattered psyche with misguided hope and dubious possibility, he had no understanding of how to do so. In other words, he had all the raw materials but lacked the proper tools. As is often the case in such situations, his new identity was chaotic and distorted, a little more Picasso than da Vinci, or some may argue, his transformation left him a little more Mr. Hyde than Dr. Jekyll.”
― Seth Daniel Parker, The Greater Good: A Novel of Divided America

“I spent thousands of hours studying a subject that is, somehow, too confusing for an academic but easily understood by a five-year-old—socialism is oppression. Even if it weren’t, it still wouldn’t work because you can’t entrust the same State that ruined capitalism to preserve socialism.”
― Seth Daniel Parker, The Greater Good: A Novel of Divided America

“I think through this proposition and always return to the same question: “If a socialist’s labor can only acquire what’s permitted by the State, but a capitalist’s labor can acquire anything the heart desires, including property, which system places more value on labor?” If you see contempt for labor in capitalism, you don’t see capitalism.”
― Seth Daniel Parker, The Greater Good: A Novel of Divided America

“Little requires greater force of mind than developing a marketable philosophy of tyranny, and that’s where you excel. Modern tyranny is no longer developed in the war room. It’s developed in the classroom.”
― Seth Daniel Parker, The Greater Good: A Novel of Divided America

“Yes, great nations are born in revolution, just as ours, but I see a difference. We demanded Liberty. Not war. We were given war. Not Liberty. Therefore, we had to earn our Liberty through war.”
― Seth Daniel Parker, The Greater Good: A Novel of Divided America

“The socialist freely admits that he’s willing to exchange economic choice with economy by force to further his agenda. Nightmarish dystopian totalitarianism follows when he inevitably decides that government by force is the preferable expedient to government by choice or consent. Forgive me, but I don’t trust the man, willing to sell half his soul, to not betray the other.”
― Seth Daniel Parker, The Greater Good: A Novel of Divided America

“What we seek is a higher authority for the subordination of a minority to the majority, further than that arising from a shared mental pathology and the inability to resist physical force.”
― Seth Daniel Parker, The Greater Good: A Novel of Divided America

“The most devious and sinister acts of historical violence are always committed by tyrants with armies—not citizens with arms.”
― Seth Daniel Parker, The Greater Good: A Novel of Divided America

“Men came to think that socialism was a switch that transformed the poverty-stricken into the wealthy, but in truth, socialism is the vehicle by which the State equalizes poverty amongst its citizens.”
― Seth Daniel Parker, The Greater Good: A Novel of Divided America

“There are many former Socialists down here, and if there were such a thing as Socialism combined with individual liberty, they’d all be happy Socialists above ground today. Caverns of truth surround them now, and they see with their own eyes that the utopian society of their dreams was nothing more than that—a dream. Being ‘blessed’ with State-enforced equality, they understand that freedom is much more important than equality as they quickly find that the only thing the State can ensure equal distribution of is misery.”
― Seth Daniel Parker, The Greater Good: A Novel of Divided America

“A man who devotes his time and efforts, under his own direction, at his own pleasure, from his own property, in order to “make others rich” is called a miserable wage slave by the socialist. Instead, they suggest that the man shed the shackles of this miserable burden by devoting his time and efforts, under the State’s direction, at the State’s pleasure, from the State’s property, in order to “make others less poor.”
― Seth Daniel Parker, The Greater Good: A Novel of Divided America

“Is the greater good simply a term we use when future society must be built upon the bones of slaughtered men?”
― Seth Daniel Parker, The Greater Good: A Novel of Divided America