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The only safeguard of liberty is the restraint of power itself.
“Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.”
― Starship Troopers
― Starship Troopers
“[The Universe] does not care, and even with all our science there are some disasters that we can not avert. All evil and good is petty before nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that can not be twisted to villainy or good, but which simply is.”
― A Fire Upon the Deep
― A Fire Upon the Deep
“We've already established whoever is writing us is an asshole.”
― Redshirts
― Redshirts
“I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.”
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“The Germans and the dog were engaged in a military operation which had an amusingly self explanatory name, a human enterprise which is seldom described in detail, whose name alone, when reported as new or history, gives many war enthusiasts a sort of post-coital satisfaction. It is, in the imagination of combat's fans, the divinely listless loveplay that follows the orgasm of victory. It is called "mopping up.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
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