Corkscrew Quotes

“he stares at the TV until the reportage sickens him for a new reason: It seems like the crass exploitation of tragedy for ratings.”
― Dean Koontz, Corkscrew

“The more things change, the more they remain the same,”
― Dean Koontz, Corkscrew

“You’re why we have food on our tables and water at the tap, why the lights come on when we flick a switch. More than that, you’re why we have a civil society, why we still feel safe in our homes and have a sense of a common bond, why we still reach out to one another in times of need, why kindness and love still have a chance of defeating the madness of factions encouraged to hate their neighbors, factions enflamed by leaders who believe that seeding contempt and hatred for others will be a convenient ladder to the top of the power structure.”
― Dean Koontz, Corkscrew

“You and folks like you are the heart and spine of the world. You’re why we have food on our tables and water at the tap, why the lights come on when we flick a switch. More than that, you’re why we have a civil society, why we still feel safe in our homes and have a sense of a common bond, why we still reach out to one another in times of need, why kindness and love still have a chance of defeating the madness of factions encouraged to hate their neighbors, factions enflamed by leaders who believe that seeding contempt and hatred for others will be a convenient ladder to the top of the power structure.”
― Dean Koontz, Corkscrew

“In their humility, they can’t easily see themselves as the spine and heart of the world, but if they don’t eventually understand their value, the necessity of their resistance, the future will be an ugly realm of madness, oppression, and endless violence.”
― Dean Koontz, Corkscrew

“in this world of free will, fate is amorphous.”
― Dean Koontz, Corkscrew

“The vision has passed, but he feels as though he is standing above a void, with nothing to support him, that his fall is about to begin, that he’ll shatter his bones on the bloody rack and ruin below.”
― Dean Koontz, Corkscrew

“who believe that seeding contempt and hatred for others will be a convenient ladder to the top of the power structure.”
― Dean Koontz, Corkscrew

“You and folks like you are the heart and spine of the world. You’re why we have food on our tables and water at the tap, why the lights come on when we flick a switch. More than that, you’re why we have a civil society, why we still feel safe in our homes and have a sense of a common bond, why we still reach out to one another in times of need, why kindness and love still have a chance of defeating the madness of factions encouraged to hate”
― Dean Koontz, Corkscrew

“his acolytes and save the millions of lives in jeopardy.”
― Dean Koontz, Corkscrew

“at the center of the circle, is sure to be a figure of uncanny charisma, the one who first sussed out like-minded individuals among the movers and shakers in government and business and media, who had the daring to approach them and the skill to convince them to risk everything in pursuit of revolution, his totalitarian ideal. Even more than the others who comprise the inner circle, that individual must be eliminated to discourage”
― Dean Koontz, Corkscrew

“There’s not much else as worth dying for as freedom.”
― Dean Koontz, Corkscrew

“To a revolutionary, everything is a weapon—games, art, songs, words.”
― Dean Koontz, Corkscrew

“This is a new century unlike any before; the caste system functions here with more authority than at any other place or time in history. And he is of the highest caste, immune to responsibility and beyond punishment.”
― Dean Koontz, Corkscrew

“this precious country in the grip of bloody fanatics”
― Dean Koontz, Corkscrew

“Regular people, nice people, wanting to live and let live—they’re getting crushed by narcissists who have too much power or who’re sick with ideology, who think they’re better than others, above the law.”
― Dean Koontz, Corkscrew

“a triskelion with three muscular red arms joined at the shoulders and bent at the elbows, hands fisted, forming a wheel and symbolizing perpetual violent revolution.”
― Dean Koontz, Corkscrew