Sean McMullen

"Laws are meant to work, not just be kept for their own sake."

"Read any history of first contact between civilizations. Even if those in power on the weaker side are able to fight back, there are always those who turn traitor and support the invaders. They are the Luministes in the picture, they sell their own people into submission to gain power under the invader."

"There is no more dangerous enemy than one who despises learning."

"Our ship has sunk and now we try to rebuild it out of driftwood."

"Am I alive? Death seems so hard to pin down in this century."

"As an amateur historian I think it’s the same, century after century: same shit, different flies."