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1 " The system required the consent of everyone, even if they consented by doing nothing. "
― Tom Rob Smith , The Secret Speech (Leo Demidov, #2)
2 " —I need to meet you. "
3 " No child could remain in the sanctuary unless they opened themselves to God. If they resisted, refused to believe, they were expelled. There was no shortage of street children to choose from. "
4 " Producing nothing, serving no quantifiable function, the church was an archaic structure, erected for archaic reasons by a society that no longer existed. "
5 " The system required the consent of everyone, even if they consented by doing nothing. Nothing was enough. They’d depended upon a lack of resistance "
6 " I had no choice" with those words thousands died, not with bullets but with perverse logic and careful reasoning. "
