The Road to Hell Quotes

“History has a way of distilling the complexity of life into oversimplified terms. To them, it will be good versus evil, right versus wrong, freedom struggling against tyranny.” With”
― Peter Cawdron, The Road to Hell

“blind loyalty is cowardice, regardless of how courageous you are under fire.”
― Peter Cawdron, The Road to Hell

“Senator Johannes was right, loyalty is not a virtue, it’s a vice, a tool to manipulate the conscientious.”
― Peter Cawdron, The Road to Hell

“Perhaps victory was as bitter as defeat.”
― Peter Cawdron, The Road to Hell

“His lifeless body slumped to the ground.”
― Peter Cawdron, The Road to Hell

“Life is meaningless and chaotic.”
― Peter Cawdron, The Road to Hell

“Life’s not a vid-opera where you can rewind the scene and replay the action with a different set of inputs to see how the characters will play out. You only get one shot at life.”
― Peter Cawdron, The Road to Hell

“Nothing about freedom guarantees peace. Freedom guarantees opportunities, not outcomes.”
― Peter Cawdron, The Road to Hell

“I’m nobody you want to know.”
― Peter Cawdron, The Road to Hell

“Patience, he thought, you’re a long time dead.”
― Peter Cawdron, The Road to Hell

“I’m not afraid of dying. I’m afraid of being forgotten.”
― Peter Cawdron, The Road to Hell

“loyalty is an affliction, not a virtue. Loyalty is a disease. Loyalty blinds the eyes. Loyalty demands we subordinate our own views to what we suppose is a higher calling. Loyalty is an abuse in the wrong hands.”
― Peter Cawdron, The Road to Hell

“The easiest way to hide data is to bury it inside a mountain of information, leaving us with a billion dead-ends to trawl through,”
― Peter Cawdron, The Road to Hell

“I think you mistake our intentions,” the senator began.”
― Peter Cawdron, The Road to Hell

“Sam Hunt. An obscure twentieth century poet from the South Pacific country of New Zealand.”
― Peter Cawdron, The Road to Hell

“We all tell lies, Harry, whether it’s for convenience, or to save face, or to hide our true feelings, we’re all liars. As much as we try to deny it, we can’t help ourselves, it’s in our nature. We lie, Harry. We lie. We can no more stop lying than we can stop breathing.”
― Peter Cawdron, The Road to Hell

“Knowledge is freedom. Ignorance is slavery.”
― Peter Cawdron, The Road to Hell

“Power stems from tapping this loophole in human nature, exploiting the naive, the sincere. A little knowledge inspires devotion, inspires loyalty, and that's what every king needs to rule.” “And”
― Peter Cawdron, The Road to Hell

“Knowledge, that’s where the battle lies. Either knowingly or unknowingly, religious and political leaders have used this principle for centuries to control the masses. Give them just enough knowledge to be dangerous, and you can twist men to any purpose you choose.”
― Peter Cawdron, The Road to Hell

“Give a man a little bit of knowledge, make him think he's in the right, and he’ll defend that to the death regardless. So long as he thinks he's right, he’ll lay down his life to support his beliefs. Don’t give him too much, don’t let him drink too deeply from the well of knowledge. Give him just a sip, that’s all that’s needed.” Walking”
― Peter Cawdron, The Road to Hell

“It is in the nature of man to become fat and lazy, entrenched, corrupt, to institutionalize inertia. Political competition keeps governments lean. When a party wins a third or fourth term, they celebrate a victory where I mourn. The lack of change causes apathy, complacency, decay. No, my friend, elections are not an obstacle to stability; they’re the vanguard of freedom, and with freedom comes stability.” My”
― Peter Cawdron, The Road to Hell

“Freedom is the ability to think, the ability to choose. Freedom is the ability to direct, to move your life where you decide, to explore, to develop your mind, to exercise your soul. Freedom isn’t found in the comforts of life, it’s found in the pursuit of reason.”
― Peter Cawdron, The Road to Hell