Unyielding Quotes

“Because he knows better than us plebes how to run our lives, clearly, and he’s going to prove that point. We’re dumb, he’s smart. We’re unsophisticated, know-nothing idiots, and he’s got all the answers to what ails us. He’s going to fix the world, and all we have to do is stand back and let him rope us into the solution. No more dissonance,” I said, “no more disagreement, no more argument. We will march in lockstep, like a hive-mind, with no rejection of thought tolerated. He won’t even allow us to have our own minds to rebel, don’t you see? No chance of thoughtcrime when he controls your thoughts.” “That’s a grim picture,” Steven said. “It’s the death of self,” I said, “in pursuit of forced selflessness. Except it’s not selfless when you’re forced to do it any more than it’s charity if I steal from you and give to the poor.”
― Robert J. Crane, Unyielding

“likely to win. “I have all the strength in the world,” I whispered to myself, so low no one could hear me, “but no power.”
― Robert J. Crane, Unyielding