“We're all in crashing plane, and everybody is fighting over who gets to sit in first class.”

“The most effective way to revive democracy is to do what we have always done; transfer decision-making from the unaccountable institutions: monarchs, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations, and bring it back to the public arena.” ~Aaron Nordquist”

“At which time the repulsor puts out its final effort and slows you down so you crash quite slowly into the surface.""Crash.""Quite slowly."Face & Luke”

“I was years older than you when I became an ambassador for the first time. Remember that, Tycho? How did we get through that assignment, anyway?”“Pretty much, we opened fire on everyone who disagreed with us.”Wedge nodded and turned to his daughter. “When all else fails, just do that.”

“Sometimes to heal, you must first get hurt.”

“Alcohol is decisiveness juice. It's also bad idea punch, intellect intoxicant, insolence nectar, fighting fluid, boastfulness booze, smartass sauce, injury water, aggressiveness aqua vitae, felony-committin’ firewater, and, of course, maybe above all else...depression drink.”

“People should draw lessons from the past, but those who look constantly behind themselves will get nothing more than a sore neck and a good view of their backsides”