Matthew

“They were middle-aged men who had grown soft with success and harder because of it,”
― Boston Teran, The Cloud and the Fire

“Fanaticism means that if you’re not against me, you’re against me.”
― Gregory David Roberts, The Mountain Shadow

“In the end, there is cruelty and death alone over the land. Not in a single ray of light or grain of sand will you find solace, for all is dark, and the cold gaze of God’s indifferent, heavy-lidded eyes falls on all with equal disdain. Only in your inner strength is there salvation; you must live just as a tree must live, or the cockroaches and fleas that flourish in the land and ruin of Earth. And so you live, and feel the sting of knowing you live. You eat whatever comes to hand, and if what you eat was once a brother or sister, so be it; God does not care. Nobody cares. You whore, and if you whore with man or woman, nobody cares; for when all are hungry, all are whores, even those who use the whores. And disease flourishes when all are whores, for germs must live, and spread across the land and ruin of Earth.”
― Greg Bear, Eternity

“You can’t rage against the machine; rage is part of the machine.”
― Robert Kroese, Schrodinger's Gat