God's Lions - The Dark Ruin Quotes

“Countries are run by corporations, and they have been for some time. Your elected leaders are nothing more than bobble-heads that nod to the whims of their corporate masters, and it is the vast number of warring corporate entities with their armies of lobbyists that has brought your democratic governments to a standstill.”
― John Lyman, God's Lions - The Dark Ruin

“People who had been victimized by greedy Wall Street bankers and the endless partisan debates of an ineffectual Congress were cheering.”
― John Lyman, God's Lions - The Dark Ruin

“To be honest, there aren’t any more true democracies in the world. The existence of your democracies is nothing more than a thinly-veiled façade. The real power lies with the few who possess the vast wealth necessary to pick and choose their leaders through vehicles like Super PACs. In the United States, the democracy you once enjoyed has been slowly eroded over time … morphed into something that would be totally unrecognizable to the founding fathers who formed your so-called perfect union over two hundred years ago.”
― John Lyman, God's Lions - The Dark Ruin

“As society disintegrates all around you, you sit by idly and allow these so-called democratically elected rulers to do nothing but fatten their corporate portfolios while you work two jobs to support your family.”
― John Lyman, God's Lions - The Dark Ruin

“The existence of your democracies is nothing more than a thinly-veiled façade. The real power lies with the few who possess the vast wealth necessary to pick and choose their leaders through vehicles like Super PACs.”
― John Lyman, God's Lions - The Dark Ruin

“any man who is gifted with great wealth should share it with the world,”
― John Lyman, God's Lions - The Dark Ruin

“It is only through our understanding of one another that we will have any chance at all of achieving some kind of peace among the religions of the world.”
― John Lyman, God's Lions - The Dark Ruin

“anything that’s connected to a computer is at the mercy of this new worm. It holds the power to determine our ability to obtain the necessities of life, and it’s shutting us out.”
― John Lyman, God's Lions - The Dark Ruin

“It will be through the marvels of technology that the destroyer will take control of our lives,”
― John Lyman, God's Lions - The Dark Ruin

“some even predict that the Earth will soon be wrapped in a digital skin transmitting signals via the internet, like a living creature that relays impulses through its nervous system.”
― John Lyman, God's Lions - The Dark Ruin

“We’ll probably have computer chips imbedded within our own bodies in the next few years, and soon anyone with the power, like a government for instance, will be able to know everything about you by merely tapping a keyboard.”
― John Lyman, God's Lions - The Dark Ruin

“the human capacity to remember our past is imprisoned behind a wall of ignorance.”
― John Lyman, God's Lions - The Dark Ruin

“A war doesn’t stop when a general falls on the field of battle. We must pick up his flag and continue the fight while we pray he returns.”
― John Lyman, God's Lions - The Dark Ruin

“Like trees, did humans sometimes lose their leaves? Is that what depression and mental illness were all about? Did people sometimes lose their leaves until some invisible force lifted them from the all-enveloping darkness and welcomed them back into a world filled with promise and light?”
― John Lyman, God's Lions - The Dark Ruin

“but there are two worlds surrounding us all. The physical one that we can feel all around us, and the spiritual one that remains invisible but nourishes our souls and allows us to see beyond that which is purely physical.”
― John Lyman, God's Lions - The Dark Ruin

“We’re linked to computers in hundreds of ways we don’t even know about. They’re being absorbed into our surroundings, and soon they’ll be embedded in everyday things like watches, jewelry, neckties ... even the walls of our homes. We’ll probably have computer chips imbedded within our own bodies in the next few years, and soon anyone with the power, like a government for instance, will be able to know everything about you by merely tapping a keyboard. They will know who you are, where you are, who you’re talking to, how much you’re spending, what you’re doing and who you’re doing it with ... in other words, you’ll never be alone. “Computers are literally dissolving into our environment ... like an electrical current flowing through society. Billions of sensors are probing every aspect of our lives, and some even predict that the Earth will soon be wrapped in a digital skin transmitting signals via the internet, like a living creature that relays impulses through its nervous system. Even now we’re all connected to orbiting satellites, enabling our movements to be tracked by a central control center, and that, my friends, will be our ultimate undoing. It will be through the marvels of technology that the destroyer will take control of our lives,”
― John Lyman, God's Lions - The Dark Ruin