“Blood is a powerful thing”
“The blood is our strength, for it is the power of the heavens and the Earth within us”
“That is not grease upon your person, Mr Gage, it is blood - blood from the endless fight to steal power from a miserly and begrudging universe.”
“Blood!...Blood!... That's a good thing! A ghost who bleeds is less dangerous!”
“Politics and war were just different names for power, and the price of power was predictably high and could be precisely measured-in dollards,yen,euros,rubles,riyals, and blood.”
“Ford carried on counting quietly. This is about the most aggressive thing you can do to a computer, the equivalent of going up to a human being and saying "Blood...blood...blood...blood...”