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1 " Ideology is a sick-soul-meme; it gnaws basic decency away until you can self-justify the most extreme acts as worthwhile to further the cause. Any cause. "
― Peter F. Hamilton , Salvation (Salvation Sequence #1)
2 " Pick a gender and stick with it, guys. "
3 " With a degree of privacy assured, I squatted down and crapped out the biopackage I’d brought along. The human anal cavity has traditionally been a smuggler favorite for most of our existence on Earth. It made me really proud to carry that fine institution on into the starflight era. Yeah, right. "
4 " In any decent civilization, healthcare is a right, not a privilege. "
5 " Fanatics,’ Kandara replied automatically. ‘I’m no longer surprised by what they do, by the misery and suffering they inflict on others. Ideology is a sick soul-meme; it gnaws basic decency away until you can self-justify the most extreme acts as worthwhile to further the cause. Any cause. "
6 " There always has to be a balance between freedom and restriction; that is fundamental to any society. Without law there is anarchy. But too much law, applied rigorously, becomes oppression "
7 " All it’s done is create a separate culture—which, incidentally, never stops whining on about its superiority. That always ends well.” “Then it is not unusual for such a culture to be subject to attack from ideological rivals. "
8 " You are so much smarter than me, aren’t you?” “No. I just think things through quicker, that’s all.” “If that’s not a definition of smart, I don’t know what is. "
9 " Fanatics,” Kandara replied automatically. “I’m no longer surprised by what they do, by the misery and suffering they inflict on others. Ideology is a sick-soul-meme; it gnaws basic decency away until you can self-justify the most extreme acts as worthwhile to further the cause. Any cause. "
10 " And it is a terrible irony that our very liberalism allows such danger to flourish. There has to be a time when we say: No more. And thanks to Connexion, that time has now come. As Edmund Burke said—’ ‘The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing,’ Yuri quoted. "
11 " Forty-two.” “Excuse me?” I queried. “Old joke,” the cardinal admitted. “The number of angels that can actually dance on a pinhead. "
12 " You are new to sentience. Your behaviour is still affected by your animal origin. "
13 " Despite Alexandre’s considerable height, Dellian could never "
14 " getting a second chance is the greatest human dream and delusion we have. It even outranks religion. "
15 " The outcome of Twenty-Eight was that any upright citizen could buy and use weapons-grade material as long as they did not utilize said material to fabricate a weapon. "
16 " There must be so many humans spread across the galaxy now; it isn’t hard to think they found one star that’s safe from the enemy. "
17 " Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon. Classic, but not as good as Wish You Were Here. "
18 " What is it every authoritarian government says? If you’ve done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear. "
19 " Maldives "
20 " Acceptance of truth is fundamental to our ethos. To determine truth we must first listen to all opinion. "
