A Stewart

“And it was negotiated between the best minds among the angels and the best minds of the demons." "Oh, no," said Mercury. "Where did you get that idea? It was negotiated by lawyers.”
― Robert Kroese, Mercury Falls

“For verily it is not deep words that make a man holy and upright; it is a good life which maketh a man dear to God.”
― Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ

“In man there is implanted a sporting instinct to side with the underdog, but this is in man, the individual. Mob psychology is different from individual psychology, and the psychology of the pack is to tear down the weaker and devour the wounded. Man may sympathize with the underdog, but he wants to side with the winner.”
― Erle Stanley Gardner, The Case of the Sulky Girl

“AQ could not defeat us, but we could undermine our own institutions and threaten our own liberties if we overreacted.”
― Henry A. Crumpton, The Art of Intelligence: Lessons from a Life in the CIA's Clandestine Service