Andrew Weil

“The world would be a better place if people stopped voting for folksy candidates they could have a beer with and started voting for people smarter than they are.” Peters”
― Marcus Sakey, Brilliance

“His discovery was that evil men arose from evil systems, and that any man had the potential to be perverted. Which was why some systems needed to come to an end.”
― Hugh Howey, Shift

“The world out there was the way it was no matter how much doubt or hope or hate a person breathed into it.”
― Hugh Howey, Dust

“We, the over-class, have taken those basic human drives and advanced our own selves through their exploitation. We have monetized human consumption, manipulated morals and laws to direct the masses by fear or hatred, and, in doing so, have managed to create a system of wealth and remuneration that has concentrated the vast majority of the world’s wealth in the hands of a select few. Over the course of two thousand years,”
― Guillermo del Toro, The Fall