Benedict

“People who are treated as less than fully human by the social order are more susceptible to tuberculosis but it’s not because of their moral codes or choices or genetics, it’s because they are treated as less than fully human by the social order.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“The new-found prosperity of American workers allowed them to buy goods which had previously been our of their reach. Peggy Terry overheard 'a woman saying on her bus that she hoped the war didn't end until she got her refrigerator paid for. An old man hit her over the head with an umbrella'.”
― Lizzie Collingham, The Taste of War: World War Two and the Battle for Food

“Sometimes the storm clears away the wreckage.”
― Travis Baldree, Brigands & Breadknives

“It is always ethical to rob the wealthy.”
― Xiran Jay Zhao, Heavenly Tyrant