The Lost Soul of the City Quotes

“because truth is always and only what it is,”
― Dean Koontz, The Lost Soul of the City

“Fear is essential to force societal change. Citizens subjected to unrelenting terror are more likely to surrender their selfish freedoms in the interest of a better world for all.”
― Dean Koontz, The Lost Soul of the City

“Frequently, our mistakes turn out to suggest meaning beyond the fact that we have made an error.”
― Dean Koontz, The Lost Soul of the City

“Nature can be as deadly as the human beings she has spawned, though she can’t match them for cruelty, because she is a green machine without emotions.”
― Dean Koontz, The Lost Soul of the City

“revolutionaries, though claiming they want to tear down the system to be free, are in fact eager to kneel before the cruelest masters of their ideology. They are destroyers rather than creators. On some profound level they realize this and yearn to be told what role they must play in the new world of their dreams. When they are finished tearing down a civilization, they enslave themselves to Hitler, to Stalin, to any tyrant ascending, and thereafter take a drone’s pleasure in being a faithful servant of the hive, freedom forgotten.”
― Dean Koontz, The Lost Soul of the City

“Inaction in the face of such hard knowledge is at best cowardice; at worst, it’s a rejection of the value of truth, an admission that you prefer a life of lies in spite of the horrors that metastasize from the compounding deceits.”
― Dean Koontz, The Lost Soul of the City

“He said hard work kept a man honest, and any dollar you didn’t earn might be the one you needed most someday.”
― Dean Koontz, The Lost Soul of the City

“He loathes violence, although he is good at it. Unlike those he has come here to confront, he’s not a bloodthirsty revolutionary ignorantly convinced that justice is one and the same thing for all times and all places. Shaped and misshapen by culture and politics and other forces, justice is too plastic a concept to inspire righteous action. Instead, Nameless is committed to the discovery and defense of truth, because truth is always and only what it is, the sole reliable light through this fun-house world of deception.”
― Dean Koontz, The Lost Soul of the City

“threnody”
― Dean Koontz, The Lost Soul of the City

“Only catastrophe can bring about radical change for the better.”
― Dean Koontz, The Lost Soul of the City

“most revolutionaries, though claiming they want to tear down the system to be free, are in fact eager to kneel before the cruelest masters of their ideology.”
― Dean Koontz, The Lost Soul of the City

“If truth matters at all, then you must act when you learn the undeniable truth of a great evil that has been committed. Inaction in the face of such hard knowledge is at best cowardice; at worst, it’s a rejection of the value of truth, an admission that you prefer a life of lies in spite of the horrors that metastasize from the compounding deceits.”
― Dean Koontz, The Lost Soul of the City

“Loneliness is the fate of he who dares to change the world.”
― Dean Koontz, The Lost Soul of the City

“neither good nor evil exists, only what is logical and illogical.”
― Dean Koontz, The Lost Soul of the City

“most revolutionaries, though claiming they want to tear down the system to be free, are in fact eager to kneel before the cruelest masters of their ideology. They are destroyers rather than creators. On some profound level they realize this and yearn to be told what role they must play in the new world of their dreams. When they are finished tearing down a civilization, they enslave themselves to Hitler, to Stalin, to any tyrant ascending, and thereafter take a drone’s pleasure in being a faithful servant of the hive, freedom forgotten.”
― Dean Koontz, The Lost Soul of the City

“If truth matters at all, then you must act when you learn the undeniable truth of a great evil that has been committed.”
― Dean Koontz, The Lost Soul of the City

“We’ve got two justice systems these days, one for them and their kind, and another system for all the rest of us.”
― Dean Koontz, The Lost Soul of the City

“neither”
― Dean Koontz, The Lost Soul of the City