The Last Good Man Quotes

“Step away from the vehicle! Face down on the ground.” “Fuck,” Alex says in disgust. “If we get gunned down, the kids are going to be pissed.”
― Linda Nagata, The Last Good Man

“Remember, we’re here for personal reasons. That’s what we need to tell them, and it has the advantage of being the truth.”
― Linda Nagata, The Last Good Man

“Tolerance cannot coexist within intolerant systems. Not back home and not here. One of them has to die.”
― Linda Nagata, The Last Good Man

“Pretty soon this business of war won’t involve humans at all—you know, except as targets.”
― Linda Nagata, The Last Good Man

“What’s left? What’s left when you’re a species running on an outdated operating system?”
― Linda Nagata, The Last Good Man

“But that’s how it goes. Atrocities, one after another, spinning off from the storm front of violent conflict, so many even the perpetrators don’t remember them all. It’s”
― Linda Nagata, The Last Good Man

“Tolerance cannot coexist within intolerant systems.”
― Linda Nagata, The Last Good Man

“I prefer dealing with the young,” he finally says. “Their lives are simple and their secrets are trivial.”
― Linda Nagata, The Last Good Man

“Who said I don’t hate? The truth is I’m pretty indiscriminate about it. There are millions of people I could hate. Everyone who wants to give themselves rights they deny to others, who wants to fuck with self-determination, individual freedom—and a woman’s freedom matters too. It’s like this, Miles. We want to be friendly with people, but what I just said, that kind of philosophy? It’s deadly to most traditional belief systems. Most of them, maybe all, require violent enforcement or, at the least, emotional blackmail, or they fall apart. Tolerance cannot coexist within intolerant systems.”
― Linda Nagata, The Last Good Man

“it provokes him to think that his profession will become the exclusive province of programmers, mechanics, engineers, and the autonomous systems they design.”
― Linda Nagata, The Last Good Man