The Barbarian Bride Quotes

“The Roman Empire died, at least in part, because it rotted away from within. Our society is facing the same problems. The rise of the bureaucratic nanny-state is sapping our virility; the rise of unchallenged and unchallengeable political consensuses is stripping common sense from our world; the slow decline of education is turning our young men and women into morons; the cuts in our military make it harder for us to fight; political correctness is making it impossible to stand up and say, bluntly, that the emperor has no clothes”
― Christopher G. Nuttall, The Barbarian Bride

“The existence of political dynasties like the Kennedys, Bushes and Clintons — and their ability to push their children forward as their successors has been limiting the influx of new blood into the political arena”
― Christopher G. Nuttall, The Barbarian Bride

“The political class, in a very real sense, is merely the tip of an iceberg that threatens to sink the ship of state. It is buttressed by a media establishment (the mainstream media) that supports its candidates uncritically, while hammering any outsider with charges that are simply inaccurate and yet maddeningly difficult to refute”
― Christopher G. Nuttall, The Barbarian Bride

“when the political class uses its power to escape the consequences of its actions, or to evade laws that apply to everyone else, it merely sows the seeds of destruction.”
― Christopher G. Nuttall, The Barbarian Bride

“The media largely exists in an echo chamber, where they tell themselves that they’re important and the Grand Senators believe them, because if they weren’t telling the truth it would be on the news. But if we can get out an alternate story, it will sound more believable because there’s already a strong reservoir of distrust.”
― Christopher G. Nuttall, The Barbarian Bride

“On one hand, the Inheritance Wars answered the question of whether a planet or an alliance of planets could leave the Federation — the answer was no — while, on the other hand, the Inheritance Wars made the Grand Senate, and the Federation as a whole, more authoritarian and less inclined to take concerns from the out-worlds seriously.”
― Christopher G. Nuttall, The Barbarian Bride