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1 " Life often goes along in a stream. The details float by like a leaf on a river. The current is pushing and pulling the leaf, but we do not see it because we are standing on the banks of the river. There are moments when the leaf is caught up in little eddies. Events pile up. They gather like twigs--like flotsam and jetsam--caught up in the stream of life. Time blocks and unblocks in little bursts at such places. Information pours through like water. The details crystallize. Various pressures and turbulences in the river, pouring into the sea of life, push and pull, but we do not see it. We do not see the leaf or the pushing and pulling. "
― Michael Bunker , The WICK Omnibus Edition
2 " Even in those historical moments when men look back and see patriotism and sacrifice as the driving forces of history, 'the majority of the people paid no attention to the general course of events but were influenced only by their immediate personal interests. "
3 " The human mind is capable of rationalizing any behavior. "
― Michael Bunker , Brother, Frankenstein
4 " You can’t force people to be thankful just because in your mind they seem to benefit from what you’re doing… especially when what you’re doing is something you would do anyway, even without them as an excuse. "
― Michael Bunker , Pennsylvania Omnibus
5 " Even the simplest of God’s animals argue and fret over position and authority… asserting, sometimes with force, just who deserves what. The difference is, of course, that the wars of the chickens won’t ever break the world. "
― Michael Bunker , The Peaceful Kind (Pennsylvania, #5)
6 " Power is the ability to coerce others to do what they would not otherwise do. "
7 " Why do you think anyone would go to such lengths to prove that a direct command of God is no longer applicable, unless it is to gain some other benefit other than the acceptance and approbation of God? "
― Michael Bunker , The Headcovering
8 " Roscoe’s dead. I loved him, but he’s gone now. Besides, if I was the one who croaked, I’d want him to be happy. "
― Michael Bunker , Osage Two Diamonds (The World of Kurt Vonnegut)
9 " fought, it was usually more trouble than it was "
― Michael Bunker , The Last Pilgrims
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― Michael Bunker , The Silo Archipelago
11 " The technology to control and destroy people always has in it the seeds of tyranny, and is forever subject to the lowest angels of human nature. "
12 " country road on the day they first viewed the property. She had taken one look at it as they drove into the driveway and said she was ready to buy if he was. In a forest thick with trees, that solitary tree had always been his favorite. It was where he’d hung that lazy tire "
― Michael Bunker , Wick (Wick, #1)
13 " If you join us, you have to be willing to give the world the truth - not because you love the world, but because you love the truth. "
14 " we know that population growth does not just magically spawn productivity. Building factories and stocking them full of people does not mystically produce either raw materials or good ideas. "
15 " Inherent in the power to make men free by force is the power to enslave them again, "
16 " the human mind is alike in every race and sect of people: when the danger isn’t close enough, or when enough generations have passed so that the reality of hardship and persecution ceases to be real, the threats fade. They take on the quality of interesting fiction. "
17 " It took more paper than ever to support the paperless society. "
― Michael Bunker , All Quiet in the Amish Zone (Pennsylvania #3)
18 " But then there would be no city left to claim. Scorched earth is a policy, it’s just not usually the best one. "
19 " And in that full day, while Jed slept and woke and worked and loved, the forces in the world around him rushed headlong toward an inevitable, and violent, climax. "
20 " The slave is held most securely when he is held by the chains of his own will and of his own fears, and when he is locked down by his own slavish desires for a comfortable life. "
