Mike Pena

“Iedolas : A curious old law I still permit in the outlands. A thief who escapes his captor can no longer be held to account for his crime.

Regis : A warning to the victim? Never show weakness, lest you forgo the hand of justice.

Iedolas : Oh no, good king. Far from it. It is a warning to the hand of justice itself: Never to loose its grip.”
― Takeshi Nozue

“No matter how much we might wish it, there is no way to build a lock that only angels can open and demons cannot. Anyone who tells you otherwise is either ignorant of the mathematics or less of an angel than they appear.”
― CGP Grey

“By any measure, we live in an extraordinary and extreme time. Language can no longer describe the world in which we live. With antique ideas and old formulas, we continue to describe a world that is no longer present. In this loss of language, the word gives way to the image as the 'language' of exchange, in which critical thought disappears to a diabolic regime of conformity - the hyper-real, the omnipresent image. Language, real place gives way to numerical code, the real virtual; metaphor to metamorphosis; body to disembodiment; natural to supernatural; many to one. Mystery disappears, replaced by the illusion of certainty in technological perfection.”
― Godfrey Reggio

“There will always be motive for crime, if we ever get to a point where people attacking each other in the streets is commonplace, at that point society has failed.”
― C. Auguste Dupin