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A Better World (Brilliance Saga, #2) QUOTES

A Better World (Brilliance Saga, #2) QUOTES

1 " He never realized how noisy American silence was until all the gadgets died. "

― Marcus Sakey , A Better World (Brilliance Saga, #2)

2 " period "

― Marcus Sakey , A Better World (Brilliance Saga, #2)

3 " Worry is a misuse of the imagination "

― Marcus Sakey , A Better World (Brilliance Saga, #2)

4 " You want to change the world? Forget politics. Learn to code. "

― Marcus Sakey , A Better World (Brilliance Saga, #2)

5 " Freedom is not a couch. It’s not a television, or a car, or a house. It’s not an item you can possess. You cannot put freedom on layaway; you cannot refinance freedom. Freedom is something you need to fight for, not once, but every single day. The nature of freedom is that it is fluid; like water in a leaking bucket, the tendency is for it to drain away. Left untended, the holes through which freedom escapes widen. When politicians restrict our rights in order to “protect us,” freedom is lost. When the military refuses to disclose basic facts, freedom is lost. Worst of all, when fear becomes a part of our lives, we willingly surrender freedom for a promise of safety, as if freedom weren’t the very basis of safety. "

― Marcus Sakey , A Better World (Brilliance Saga, #2)

6 " No, the great thing about the truth is that it’s true. "

― Marcus Sakey , A Better World (Brilliance Saga, #2)

7 " Revolution? You’re an idiot. You don’t even know what that word means. Forget your precious Mao and Che and Fidel. If they’ve appeared on a T-shirt, they haven’t changed shit. You want revolution, look at Alexander Fleming. Penicillin transformed the world in ways Lenin and Washington only dreamt of. Now sit down and shut up, you autocratic frat boy. It’s adult swim. "

― Marcus Sakey , A Better World (Brilliance Saga, #2)

8 " Funny, there had been a time when building things was what America did. From massive dams to towering skyscrapers, from mechanized factories to moon rockets, the nation had created, had viewed that as part of the national identity. Being an engineer or an architect had once been high aspirations. Now everybody wanted to be musicians and basketball players, and America didn’t build squat. "

― Marcus Sakey , A Better World (Brilliance Saga, #2)

9 " Frightened people want action more than they want correct action. It’s in the data. "

― Marcus Sakey , A Better World (Brilliance Saga, #2)

10 " Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry. "

― Marcus Sakey , A Better World (Brilliance Saga, #2)

11 " We are never more clever than in the creation of ways to destroy ourselves. "

― Marcus Sakey , A Better World (Brilliance Saga, #2)

12 " First they came for the revolutionaries, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a revolutionary. Then they came for the intellectuals, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t an intellectual. Then they came for the tier ones, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a tier one. Then they came for the brilliants, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a brilliant. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me. "

― Marcus Sakey , A Better World (Brilliance Saga, #2)

13 " The truth was, everything in life came down to intentions and results. Cooper’s intentions in killing Peters and releasing the video had been good; the results had been a disaster. Did that make his intentions wrong? If so, that meant morality was really only a way of talking about how we wished things were. Hope, empathy, idealism—maybe they didn’t matter. Maybe the only thing that counted was results. "

― Marcus Sakey , A Better World (Brilliance Saga, #2)

14 " you are going to find that the heights you’ve attained make for a long fall if you don’t understand the mountain. "

― Marcus Sakey , A Better World (Brilliance Saga, #2)

15 " Funny, there had been a time when building things was what America did. From massive dams to towering skyscrapers, from mechanized factories to moon rockets, the nation had created, had viewed that as part of the national identity. "

― Marcus Sakey , A Better World (Brilliance Saga, #2)

16 " Though now the secretary of defense, Owen Leahy had come up through intelligence, and it showed. His posture suggested that not only would he not comment on the quality of the morning, he would neither confirm nor deny that it was in fact the a.m. There weren’t many people who gave off so little to Cooper’s eyes. "

― Marcus Sakey , A Better World (Brilliance Saga, #2)

17 " Cooper said nothing. “Jesus.” Quinn rubbed at his eyes. “Wait. How does this get him what he wants? Things are worse now for abnorms than ever before. The microchipping, the hate crimes, hell, every third congressman holding press conferences to say we need to lock you all up. "

― Marcus Sakey , A Better World (Brilliance Saga, #2)

18 " For a moment, the future threatened to swamp him, the terrifying infinity of it, like being alone in the Pacific in the middle of a starless night, all that water and time around and below him, the deepest hole in the planet sucking him down into darkness. "

― Marcus Sakey , A Better World (Brilliance Saga, #2)

19 " Be nothing. Be not the spider nor the man nor the future nor the past. Be the moment. Be nothing. "

― Marcus Sakey , A Better World (Brilliance Saga, #2)

20 " Funny, there had been a time when building things was what America did. From massive dams to towering skyscrapers, from mechanized factories to moon rockets, the nation had created, had viewed that as part of the national identity. Being an engineer or an architect had once been high aspirations. "

― Marcus Sakey , A Better World (Brilliance Saga, #2)