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1 " America is the place where you cannot kill your Government by killing the men who conduct it. The only way you can kill government in America is by making the men and women of America forget how to govern. —Woodrow Wilson, 1919 "
― Charles Stross , Dark State (Empire Games #2)
2 " Back to my question: is it better to reign in Hell—or should I aspire to be a citizen in the early years of a better nation? "
3 " Everything is terrorism these days: downloading, uploading, jaywalking with intent to cause fear. "
4 " I picked you for this task, Colonel, precisely because you won’t do it lightly. "
5 " Ras is a big fan of Noam Chomsky; calling it the Propaganda Ministry keeps things honest, he says. Like having a Ministry of War rather than a Department of Defense, or Counting Other People’s Murdered Children instead of talking about Collateral Damage. "
6 " Rita stopped, suddenly acutely aware that while curiosity was her job, too much curiosity was reputedly felicidal: "
7 " A certain Herr Schurz, a Prussian politician, once said: ‘My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right. "
8 " After all, if there is one person a fanatic is predisposed to hate, it’s a moderate who is almost but not completely aligned with their program. "