Creedl

“You been mud wrestling, General?” “Only with my conscience.” “Really? Who won?” “Well, it was one of those rare occasions when violence really doesn’t solve anything.”
― Iain M. Banks, Use of Weapons

“Want to know one ugly thought? ~ Are there not enough in the world already? ~ Assuredly. But sometimes ugly thoughts can be prevented from becoming ugly deeds by exposing them.”
― Iain M. Banks, Look to Windward

“Money implies poverty,” I quoted them. Hell, they should engrave that in stone over the hangar door of every GCU.”
― Iain M. Banks, The State of the Art

“In the same way that we would not tolerate a man walking up to our house and smashing it down with an axe, so must we find intolerable the actions of a man who would destroy the scaffold about which we construct our society.”
― Richard Swan, Grave Empire