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“if piety and patriotism ever had a bedfellow, it was violence.”
― Newton Thornburg, Cutter and Bone

“Economic insecurity and deprivation are key components of a hierarchical society. If they are eliminated, and if literacy and education are widespread, the elites have to deal with a population that is not as easily mesmerized by power and not compelled by necessity to submit to subjugation and exploitation in exchange for material security.”
― Aaron Good, American Exception: Empire and the Deep State

“We possess ideas, but we are possessed by feelings. They lie too deep for understanding, astir with their own secret life and carrying us with them.”
― Thomas Flanagan, The Year of the French

“But once violence has been expended and empire has taken some person, place, or thing as its own, it gives that person, place, or thing a new name and erases the old one. This new name also erases the history of that person, place, or thing, as if everything that came before never happened.”
― James Hynes, Sparrow