Steve Perry Quotes

Young soldiers had a lot of expectations and fantasies about how it would be and what they would do and feel. Invariably wrong, those expectations.

Rich people seldom run amok; They hire somebody to do that for them.

In the land of the unarmed, the man with a rock was king.

What other paths were there? His studies had shown him that revolution and evolution were the only ways that societies ever truly changed. Revolution and evolution, built of a mix of education and violence and politics and compromise and self-interest and self-preservation. Certainly, history showed that rigid societies, like ancient dinosaurs, always died. The Confed was the biggest dinosaur ever, and while it was already dying and had been doing so for a long time, it would take many years before it finally fell. Any empire which had to hold its citizens in check with military force was far down the road to destruction. Which brought up another thought: what would replace the dead beast when it began to rot? What parasite would emerge from the corpse to try and breed itself into superiority?

He had not found God, but he had found something much more important.
He had found himself.

If it ain’t broke, don’t break it.

Perhaps the voice stilled. Perhaps not. Either way, he lost the sound of it in the surging wave that crested and carried him to new places with this new woman. For a few moments, at least, the sound went away, along with the darkness, the worry, the memories. He and Moon danced the oldest man and woman dance, yin and yang, and all else was less than a shadow.
For a few moments.

There were, in Ferret’s experience, two kinds of law: one law ruled the poor, an altogether different one more gently guided the rich.

The mark of a civilized man was to know when to leave the party.

Khadaji only nodded. It didn’t matter to him if he passed the test or not. He wasn’t here to get a degree; he was here to learn.

You're a genius, you know that?"
"I've always thought so, myself.

As it had always done, money talked, and what it said was, “Leave me alone and I’ll pay you well.”

Okay, I need to go places and shoot people.

Shoot at us, we will nuke you all and let God sort out your radioactive dust.

But was it not you who used to tell me that the more you knew, the better? That knowledge was the sharpest fang?