Come and Take It Quotes

“There’s always going to be the one percent out there. Evil dickheads, at both ends of the political spectrum, just wanting the power. They’re nothing, one percent, if that. Easily ignored if it weren’t for the nasty, efficient, ambitious, back stabbing fifteen or twenty percent that don’t believe in anything one way or another. They just feed off of the power and authority, and in turn, grow it, protect it. I don’t care if it’s the New Caliphate, South American Junta Republic, the Central Asian Bloc, Nazi Germany, Mao’s China, the Soviet Union, or hell, Russia at any time in the last 600 years. It comes down to the bureaucrats that owe their allegiance to the system or entity that employs them and everything they’ll do to grow and protect the power they see as theirs.”
― S.M. Anderson, Come and Take It

“He knew it played a role, helped a lot of people, and he was big believer in charity, though in his mind there were too many people who taken advantage of a bureaucratic system that did nothing but reward weakness and indolence.”
― S.M. Anderson, Come and Take It

“nodded gravely,”
― S.M. Anderson, Come and Take It

“don’t argue with an idiot, bystanders won’t be able to tell you apart,”
― S.M. Anderson, Come and Take It

“A guiding hand, no matter how benevolent or light can’t help but strive to protect itself, its institutions, its power, its bureaucracy and its authority over time.”
― S.M. Anderson, Come and Take It