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1 " Fear is essential to force societal change. Citizens subjected to unrelenting terror are more likely to surrender their selfish freedoms in the interest of a better world for all. "
― Dean Koontz , The Lost Soul of the City (Nameless: Season Two #1)
2 " Only catastrophe can bring about radical change for the better. "
3 " threnody "
4 " Loneliness is the fate of he who dares to change the world. "
5 " He loathes violence, although he is good at it. Unlike those he has come here to confront, he’s not a bloodthirsty revolutionary ignorantly convinced that justice is one and the same thing for all times and all places. Shaped and misshapen by culture and politics and other forces, justice is too plastic a concept to inspire righteous action. Instead, Nameless is committed to the discovery and defense of truth, because truth is always and only what it is, the sole reliable light through this fun-house world of deception. "
6 " because truth is always and only what it is, "
7 " most revolutionaries, though claiming they want to tear down the system to be free, are in fact eager to kneel before the cruelest masters of their ideology. "
8 " Inaction in the face of such hard knowledge is at best cowardice; at worst, it’s a rejection of the value of truth, an admission that you prefer a life of lies in spite of the horrors that metastasize from the compounding deceits. "
9 " If truth matters at all, then you must act when you learn the undeniable truth of a great evil that has been committed. Inaction in the face of such hard knowledge is at best cowardice; at worst, it’s a rejection of the value of truth, an admission that you prefer a life of lies in spite of the horrors that metastasize from the compounding deceits. "
10 " He said hard work kept a man honest, and any dollar you didn’t earn might be the one you needed most someday. "