Chris Jennings > Quotes

“Lincoln speculated, that some American Caesar or Napoleon—a figure whose slouching arrival upon the scene the young lawyer regarded as inevitable—will be able, for no reason loftier than the satisfaction of his own vainglory, to swallow the American experiment”
― Chris Jennings, End of Days: Ruby Ridge, the Apocalypse, and the Unmaking of America

“The Late Great Planet Earth was the best-selling nonfiction work of the entire 1970s, outselling everything except the book it purports to analyze: the Bible.”
― Chris Jennings, End of Days: Ruby Ridge, the Apocalypse, and the Unmaking of America

“one of the officers stepped out of the trees”
― Chris Jennings, End of Days: Ruby Ridge, the Apocalypse, and the Unmaking of America

“His “Harmonian Court of Love,” in which individuals are algorithmically paired for romantic and sexual liaisons, sounded preposterous in the middle nineteenth century. Today it is the banal reality of online dating (eHarmony). Since”
― Chris Jennings, Paradise Now: The Story of American Utopianism

“Whatever God you serve”
― Chris Jennings, End of Days: Ruby Ridge, the Apocalypse, and the Unmaking of America

“Anyone nuts enough to try building heaven on earth is bound for a hell of his own making”
― Chris Jennings