Michael

“Kings were always the last to feel the famine. That wasn’t just the Belt. That was all of history. The people who’d just been going about their lives were the ones who could speak to the actual cost of war. They paid it first. Men like Marco could orchestrate vast battles, order the looting and destruction of worlds, and never run out of coffee.”
― James S.A. Corey, Babylon's Ashes

“There was no degree of competence that would assure anyone of survival, and no scale that would tell a commander which man would live and which man would die.”
― Larry McMurtry, Streets Of Laredo

“Everyone thinks of himself, and he lives most gaily who knows best how to deceive himself.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“If God does not exist everything is permitted.”
― Fydor Dostoevsky