Blockers Quotes

“Moving house to house, the small team of young firefighters learned that firestorm wasn’t the only risk on the rise in the Berkeley hills. There was also the shockingly high risk of shitstorms. That mere citizens bore some kind of responsibility to make changes to their private property for the sake of the wider community fueled a familiar outrage—the outrage of people who once didn’t understand why they should be vaccinated, or wear masks.”
― Michael Lewis, Blockers: Rebels in the Deep State

“Taxes are what we pay for a civilized society,” Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. had once said”
― Michael Lewis, Blockers: Rebels in the Deep State

“He was the first and only DOGE member to question publicly what DOGE was up to. Soon he received a message telling him that he was fired. As a DOGE member, you could get away with saying—or having said—almost anything. What you couldn’t say is that the government actually sort of worked.”
― Michael Lewis, Blockers: Rebels in the Deep State

“The Trump administration was betting that if they broke the law fast enough, the law would never catch up to them.”
― Michael Lewis, Blockers: Rebels in the Deep State

“All that now mattered was power. Who had physical control of a building. Who had the guns. An institution dedicated to the idea that conflict did not need to lead to violence now found itself in a society in which might meant right. Of course it had to die.”
― Michael Lewis, Blockers: Rebels in the Deep State

“He’d lost the building to its own private security company after it was blackmailed by the Trump administration. To the DC police, which for some reason were now acting as a private security force for these random kids Elon Musk had empowered. To the FBI, which”
― Michael Lewis, Blockers: Rebels in the Deep State

“Tim himself remained so quiet and self-effacing that one of his superiors complained in his performance review that he needed to learn how to promote himself.”
― Michael Lewis, Blockers: Rebels in the Deep State