Felipe

“I told you before that Johnson would be off the board, and he will be. We didn’t take him at Tycho, and we’ll take him somewhere else. He is my white whale, and I will hunt him to the end of time.” Rosenfeld looked down at his bulb, his body hunching a degree in submission. Filip had felt his father’s victory like it was his own. “Didn’t finish reading that book, did you?” Rosenfeld asked mildly.”
― James S.A. Corey, Babylon's Ashes

“But to write off white working-class anger as nothing more than racism is intellectual comfort food, and it is dangerous.”
― Michael J. Sandel, The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?

“Patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country is always right, which is imbecile.”
― Patrick O'Brian, Master & Commander

“Most of what we know isn’t why things are what they are. We just figure out enough about how they work that we can predict the next thing that’s going to happen.”
― James S.A. Corey, Babylon’s Ashes