He tried again, but their sullen, rural obstinacy was impervious to logic. - David Brin

The greedy and the power-hungry will always look for ways to break the rules, or twist them to their advantage.

I regret having been the bearer of ambiguous tidings.

We are having extreme difficulty with local gangs of “Survivalists.” Fortunately, these infestations of egotists are mostly too paranoid to band together. They’re as much trouble to each other as to us, I suppose. Still, they are becoming a real problem.