Mike Garrett

“People whined about taxes and conscription, as they always did; but there was an apathy beneath the empty passion-play of politics. The center had frayed like a rag rug that had been washed and walked on and shaken and hung and dried. The thread that held the last jewel at the breast of the world was unraveling. Things were not holding together. The earth drew in its breath in the summer of the coming eclipse.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

“No nation, no matter how powerful and great and whatever be its form of government, can long withstand the stranglehold of moral deterioration in its people.”
― Leon Jaworski, After Fifteen Years

“Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas. It’s attractive because it’s simple, it’s direct, it’s almost always available as an option. When you can’t think of a good rebuttal for your opponent’s argument, you can always punch them in the face.”
― James S.A. Corey, Abaddon’s Gate

“Heroism is a label most people get for doing shit they’d never do if they were really thinking about it.”
― James S.A. Corey, Abaddon's Gate