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“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

“The Empire wanted to survive; it was like an animal, a massive, powerful body that would only let certain cells or viruses survive within it and as a matter of course killed off any and all others, automatically and unthinkingly.”
― Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games

“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

“There were few better ways of knocking the fight out of people than by convincing them that life was a joke, a contrivance under somebody else’s ultimate control, and nothing of what they thought or did really mattered.”
― Iain M. Banks, Surface Detail