Gary Ballard > Quotes

“Aristotle, I swear that kid is going to get himself killed one of these days. He’s a dumbass at the genetic level.”
― Gary Ballard, Under the Amoral Bridge

“He had been a struggling real estate developer living in the home his parents had bought back in the early ‘80’s when home ownership was still attainable with hard work.”
― Gary Ballard, Under the Amoral Bridge

“That’s the trick we’ve learned about democracy, you see. Democracy is inherently chaotic, with the will of the people often easily swayed by all sorts of externalities, things like fear and pride and greed. But if you can control those externalities, manipulate those factors, democracy is imminently controllable.”
― Gary Ballard, Under the Amoral Bridge

“power is not built by honorable heroes, it is built by pragmatic men making terrible decisions in the name of what they consider the greater good. Power is built with blood.”
― Gary Ballard, The Long and the Short Swords