Thomas Fleming

“A city's only ever three hot meals away from anarchy.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Terminal World

“Its hard to die. Harder to live”
― Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion

“Mobs have passions, not brains.”
― Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion

“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space