The Skywalkers Quotes

“we have met our end because we did not pay attention, we gave away our freedom, we gave away our blood. We became slaves because of our unwillingness to give up our decadent life of luxury and carelessness for our fellow humans.”
― JC Ryan, The Skywalkers

“those who forget their history are doomed to repeat it. I know it wasn't just fringe lunatics, and the people behind the scenes might have been more successful had the time been right. They didn't prepare well enough, and the movement collapsed. But a few of the leaders had made some serious money. They went underground. I believe what we're seeing here is a resurgence. I haven't even shown you what I've discovered about communications. The same thing's happening there, worldwide.”
― JC Ryan, The Skywalkers

“Eligo Rarus was formed from the top one percent of them, maybe a dozen or so to begin with. Attrition had brought them down to six, who were obscenely rich on a scale that even the rest of the obscenely rich couldn't begin to imagine.”
― J.C. Ryan, The Skywalkers

“the charm of the little town”
― J.C. Ryan, The Skywalkers

“We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. Live your life with class, dignity, and style so that an exclamation, rather than a question mark signifies it! Gary Ryan Blair”
― JC Ryan, The Skywalkers

“It obviously both analyzed and monitored the citizens. Now she did have something to contribute. “This is almost certainly a reference to genetics. In fact this looks very much like genetic engineering.”
― JC Ryan, The Skywalkers

“the “thing” would be “looking” at their “blood” and decide who should be married to whom and how many children they could have. The article stated that part was only introduced recently and many people were very unhappy. Some tried to remove the “thing” and died, some “protested” and died. After a period of upheaval, they just had to accept it. They were told it was better for them because the “new” people (babies that were born after this rule was enforced) were healthier than before. They should be happy, because it looked like their children would live to 200 and beyond!”
― JC Ryan, The Skywalkers

“If a citizen tried to tamper with the tracker (as the group were now calling it) or remove it that citizen would be dead very quickly. If someone did not eat the food or take the medicine at the time he was supposed to, he would get severe pains, something like the shocks from a dog’s bark collar, Robert suggested. The others stared at him in horror. Who used those these days? He quickly went back to the reading. If a citizen kept on ignoring the prompts, the pain would get more severe and in the end would just be killed if he didn’t “listen”.”
― JC Ryan, The Skywalkers

“We used to pride ourselves on balanced reporting. When I worked there, I mean. But now, the editors seem to have hand-picked a Presidential candidate and all the stories are about how great he is and how lame all the others are. What’s that all about? It’s like they’re trying to brainwash the public. And it’s not just the news site itself. A lot of the reporters have Facebook pages, and that’s all they post, too.” Salome was nodding. “I’ve observed the same. Let me guess. The hand-picked candidate is the incumbent, yes?”
― JC Ryan, The Skywalkers

“there were no financial concepts such as we have today for money or payments in the Eighth Cycle. It appeared from what the translators had so far given them that it had been a moneyless society. The “thing” will allow them to only get the food and medication that was prescribed to them based on their “blood”, although no mention of other necessities such as housing and clothing were mentioned in any of the translated articles. Sinclair speculated it was probably the same; however, he pointed out, they had only translated portions Raj had identified as having to do with the beast. Apparently the beast was concerned with the health of the citizens, which didn’t make sense given what they also knew about it – it killed.”
― JC Ryan, The Skywalkers

“The “thing” in their hands not only kept them in touch, but it directed the lives of Eighth Cycle citizens. They would just swipe their hands past an “eye” at the “storehouses” where they would get their food and supplies. A device not only registered but controlled what they obtained. It also reminded them when to go in to see a doctor, which Joseph had mentioned to Sinclair was designated by the Athabaskan word for shaman. Within this part of the information was a great deal of detail about medicines, ceremonies and other archaic notions of medicine. Sinclair suspected the Athabaskan words concealed something sinister with regard to the constant monitoring of every citizen’s health.”
― JC Ryan, The Skywalkers

“In The Room of Darkness on the 5th floor of this place of all evil will you find the beast. You MUST destroy it; you MUST destroy everything that mentions it. But you must be careful — you must handle it with great care – others have tried to destroy it and were killed by it. In the room with the beast you will find the book that tells you how it works and in The Room of Knowledge on the 4th floor of this place of all evil you will find more about it. Don’t touch the beast until you have learned how it works, otherwise you will surely die.”
― JC Ryan, The Skywalkers

“known dissenters were taken away and re-educated, to return and recant their subversive opinions. As more dissenters appeared, a mysterious illness began to befall them and many died. A fearsome beast was released against all citizens. We learned to guard our words carefully, lest we be among the victims, yet growing displeasure with our way of life made more and more speak out as more and more died.”
― JC Ryan, The Skywalkers

“The Council of Selected provides us with all our bodily needs but they own our spirits and our thoughts. Our happiness, our being belongs to them. We are their servants, because they own our blood. Within my lifetime, a movement has arisen to throw off the yoke of thought control imposed by The Council of The Selected.”
― JC Ryan, The Skywalkers

“Our world has developed out of the ashes of the cycle before us, after their destruction by fire from the sky. Our world has long been stable, it was perfect, with no dissent, no war, no disease and no poverty such as in the old days. We should be happy, but we are not. We have no freedom, we are oppressed, we are controlled because they have our blood. I beg you again read and be warned!”
― JC Ryan, The Skywalkers

“this environment is ripe for enslaving the minds of ninety percent of the earth's inhabitants by those who would exploit it for their own ends?” “I do. It’s happened so slowly, compared to the growth of technology that almost no one noticed.”
― JC Ryan, The Skywalkers

“The truth or lack thereof wasn't the point. The point was that no one could believe anything they saw in print or even in a photo anymore, but everyone believed anything they were told often enough, with or without facts to back it up. What could have been the greatest boon to mankind, an archive of every bit of human knowledge, free for the asking, had become the greatest disinformation machine in the history of mankind.”
― JC Ryan, The Skywalkers

“Revelation 13:16-18 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.”
― JC Ryan, The Skywalkers

“between them they owned stakes in or controlled pretty much everything that had an impact on human life on this planet including water. Through their holdings they controlled politics in every democracy in the world – they decided who gets elected and who not, they decided which companies were going down and which ones were making a profit. They could drop the share values of a company in a matter of minutes and then buy up what they wanted at rock bottom prices or just destroy the company because they did not like it.”
― JC Ryan, The Skywalkers

“the group existed, these six had been accumulating shares in key industries such as communications, transport, banking, pharmaceutical, medical, technology and other key industries worldwide. They were shrewd enough to hide what they were doing – very seldom would they buy controlling shares, and never in their personal names. Instead, the acquisitions were always through companies that owned companies that owned yet more companies - hiding themselves five, six or more levels away from the front, the public eye and any security screens.”
― JC Ryan, The Skywalkers

“they’re waiting for something. Because frankly, with the assets they already have, they’re poised to take over most of the world any time. The only thing I can see holding them back is the security forces of the governments they’d likely target. Until they find a way around that, or find a way to get those forces behind themselves, we’ve got some time.”
― JC Ryan, The Skywalkers

“Given the breadth of the population that's on the internet, they could shift world opinion in hours, determine the outcome of elections, bring down the stock market, whatever they wanted. And no one would be the wiser.”
― JC Ryan, The Skywalkers

“One organization has been quietly buying up the interests of all the major search engines. That organization could easily compile this type of report on every adult in the world, save those who have never accessed the internet at all. The implications are grave. With even a fraction of the information in that report, they could ruin you if they wanted. And it gets worse. Universal medical records. I haven't found any way to crack those, but if someone does, look out.”
― JC Ryan, The Skywalkers

“Verified and traced all the shell corporations myself. Every major bank in the US is owned by a handful of European aristocrats who are all related to each other by birth." "Why haven't the antitrust regulations been triggered?" "Come on, Luke, you know the answer to that. It takes special access to some deeply-buried information to put it together. Security agencies have it, but they're all busy monitoring for terrorism these days.”
― JC Ryan, The Skywalkers

“Historians warned that it was becoming the ‘bread and circuses’ that brought down the Roman Empire. But no one remembered their history, so the warnings fell on deaf ears.”
― JC Ryan, The Skywalkers

“the internet, the media with the most potential for honest news and understanding of the world, had become one large scam or a place to watch funny videos that showed the same animal behavior for the entertainment of the masses.”
― JC Ryan, The Skywalkers

“Worse yet, people would get depressed and aggressive if they were not connected to the internet and in touch with friends and family 100% of the time. Studies showed that the majority would give up sleep, sex, money and food in exchange for being connected.”
― JC Ryan, The Skywalkers

“Manholes had to be called “maintenance holes” because it would be sexist to call it a manhole. No one knew what the word du jour was for a person of color, because it changed so often, and yet most people never stopped to consider that there was no need to express a difference based on skin color. Why not just say ‘that man’? Why did his color or ethnicity have to be called out?”
― JC Ryan, The Skywalkers

“People did not lie anymore they only “misremembered” or “misspoke”. They did not get fired they got “dehired”, or “downsized”. It had reached the point of the sublime ridiculous.”
― JC Ryan, The Skywalkers

“No longer did the masses recognize the concept that one person’s rights ended when they impinged harmfully on someone else’s. One person might exercise his right of free speech despite it being hate-filled - and don’t you dare stop them or say anything about it – while another was shouted down for calling that to the attention of the crowd.”
― JC Ryan, The Skywalkers