“Do you wrestle with dreams? Do you contend with shadows? Do you move in a kind of sleep? Time has slipped away. Your life is stolen. You tarried with trifles, Victim of your folly.”
― Dune
― Dune
“Citizenship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part . . . and that the part should be humbly proud to sacrifice itself that the whole may live.”
― Starship Troopers
― Starship Troopers
“the excessive wealth in the hands of the few” coexisting with the “extreme poverty, ignorance, vice, and wretchedness of the many, a maldistribution of property” sealed by the “influence of money…growing greater and greater…in Congress, in state legislatures, in city councils, in the courts, in the political conventions.” “This is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people no longer,” he wrote. “It is a government by the corporations, of the corporations, and for the corporations.”
― Age of Betrayal
― Age of Betrayal
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