“Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.”

“War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins.”

“Whoever opined "Money can't buy you happiness" obviously had far too much of the stuff.”

“The world unmakes stuff faster than people can make it.”

“Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is.”

“Dr. Upward was one of those Academy Award-winning Asses of Arrogance you find in educational administration, law or medicine.”

“Our weaponry was not dropped onto our laps one morning. It is not manna from Sinai’s skies. Since Agincourt, the White man has refined & evolved the gunpowder sciences until our modern armies may field muskets by the tens of thousands! Aha!’ you will ask, yes, ‘But why us Aryans? Why not the Unipeds of Ur or the Mandrakes of Mauritius?’ Because, Preacher, of all the world’s races, our love—or rather our rapacity—for treasure, gold, spices & dominion, oh, most of all, sweet dominion, is the keenest, the hungriest, the most unscrupulous! This rapacity yes, powers our Progress; for ends infernal or divine I know not. Nor do you know, sir. Nor do I overly care. I feel only gratitude that my Maker cast me on the winning side.”