Peter

“There is no law that says political parties must survive. All badly run or led enterprises inevitably collapse.”
― Niki Savva, Earthquake: the election that shook Australia

“Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“a life well-lived lay in the small perfections.”
― John Birmingham, World War 3.3

“The heart of democracy is violence, Miss Tagwynn,” Esterbrook said. “In order to decide what to do, we take a count of everyone for and against it, and then do whatever the larger side wishes to do. We’re having a symbolic battle, its outcome decided by simple numbers. It saves us time and no end of trouble counting actual bodies—but don’t mistake it for anything but ritualized violence. And every few years, if the person we elected doesn’t do the job we wanted, we vote him out of office—we symbolically behead him and replace him with someone else. Again, without the actual pain and bloodshed, but acting out the ritual of violence nonetheless. It’s actually a very practical way of getting things done.”
― Jim Butcher, The Aeronaut's Windlass