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“It is unpleasant, but this is the world you and I live in, now. Men must be bought or compelled, rather than relied upon to do the right thing.”
― James Islington, The Strength of the Few

“The oldest argument for doing something wrong is that everyone is doing it. To dismantle what they have built would have required the agreement of every man who had spent his life building it," agrees my father softly. "It would have required them to give up all they have striven their entire lives to gain. And they would have needed to do it, largely, for the benefit of those at whose expense it originally came.”
― James Islington, The Strength of the Few

“A pain promised is often worse than pain itself.”
― James Islington, The Strength of the Few

“I don't like it either but when power is so entrenched, so impossibly distant, blood becomes the only possible currency of change.”
― James Islington, The Strength of the Few