The Rope Quotes

“He also knew that there is no escape from power like his, no exit, no way out of the predicament that being always on creates; there is only death.”
― Kanan Makiya, The Rope

“Or perhaps it is a matter of those despised parts of our natures that are normally frittered away as harmless foibles giving rise in times of war to monsters.”
― Kanan Makiya, The Rope