James

“How did they not know they had killed their own planet?” Doc asked. “That’s a trademark of a cult. Control information and only let them see what you want them to see,” Jason shrugged. “If De’Astor Ka had told the next generation what he’d done, it’s not likely they’d see themselves as saviors.”
― Joshua Dalzelle, Savage Homecoming

“In effect, the human being should be considered the priority objective in a political war. And conceived as the military target of guerrilla war, the human being has his most critical point in his mind. Once his mind has been reached, the "political animal" has been defeated, without necessarily receiving bullets.”
― Central Intelligence Agency, CIA Manual for Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare

“Don’t let tired old men living in the past keep you from having enough to eat and proper medical care.”
― Rick Partlow, 1st to Fight

“While I’m certain that antigovernment groups were ready to jump into action at this crisis, the skill with which it is being pulled off implies forethought. Somebody had a plan to stoke these flames. Prior protests, like Occupy and Ferguson, certainly had opportunists who were ready to grab attention for themselves. But on the whole, those protest organizers were disorganized and fought just as much with each other as with the power they were challenging.”
― Andrew Mayne, Black Fall