Crimson Worlds Collection I Quotes

“the democracies of the west, which had been the drivers of 20th century growth, were in rapid decline. Beset with corrupt and bloated governments, bankrupted by decades of appalling mismanagement, riddled with cronyism, and unable to recapture the economic dynamism of their past, they were teetering on the verge of collapse. The”
― Jay Allan, Crimson Worlds Collection I

“The new officer AIs were the state of the art in quasi-sentient computers, and the designers had decided that giving them a soothing, human-sounding voice and an active personality would reduce stress on officers in the field. I can’t speak to the psychology of the officer corps in general, but the damned thing creeped me out. And it talked too much.”
― Jay Allan, Crimson Worlds Collection I

“Glory is a veneer that reflects the light only from a distance.  Up close you can see through it, to bitter price paid in pain and death.” ”
― Jay Allan, Crimson Worlds Collection I

“They would fight to the last if he asked them to, and they knew if it came to that, Erik Cain would be in the line with them.”
― Jay Allan, Crimson Worlds Collection I

“The jailers, the Court, everyone in that building – it wasn’t about justice; it was about obedience and intimidation…about maintaining order. Fear accomplished that with far greater effectiveness than due process and measured punishments.”
― Jay Allan, Crimson Worlds Collection I

“He wondered what Leonidas thought that last morning at Thermopylae,”
― Jay Allan, Crimson Worlds Collection I

“Glory is a veneer that reflects the light only from a distance.  Up close you can see through it, to bitter price paid in pain and death.”
― Jay Allan, Crimson Worlds Collection I

“how easily people can zealously pursue and defend a point of view, often ignoring inconvenient facts that interfere with their desired belief structure. I”
― Jay Allan, Crimson Worlds Collection I

“the substance of republican government was freely surrendered in the end by scared populations willing to trade any freedom for increasingly unreliable promises of security. In”
― Jay Allan, Crimson Worlds Collection I

“There are only two kinds of people that understand Marines: Marines and the enemy. Everyone else has a second-hand opinion.        – General William Thornson, U.S. Army”
― Jay Allan, Crimson Worlds Collection I

“One persistent gasbag had harassed him so much he’d almost ordered one of his officers to draw a diagram of the anatomically challenging suggestion he offered the self-important fop.”
― Jay Allan, Crimson Worlds Collection I

“They administered pain-control hypnosis and something they called “compensatory neural stimulation,” but trust me, none of it did a damned thing...sort of like giving you two aspirin before setting you on fire.”
― Jay Allan, Crimson Worlds Collection I