Gene Ishchuk

“She'd confused honour with virtue. Virtue is concerned with what we do, and honour is concerned with how we do it. You can fight a war in an honorable way—the Geneva Convention exists for that very reason—and you can enforce the peace without any honor at all. In its essence, honour is the art of being humble. And gangsters, just like cops, politicians, soldiers, and holy men, are only ever good at what they do if they stay humble.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“To cover their tracks even further, the boomers have stuffed their heirs with sufficient pseudo-knowledge to make them feel as if they know enough about the past to judge themselves superior to it.”
― Helen Andrews, Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster

“Britain could become the first country in modern history to transition from a developed nation to an underdeveloped one.”
― Walt Bogdanich, When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm

“Being a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad.”
― George Orwell