“To live factionless Is not just to live in poverty and discomfort; it is to live divorced from society, separated from the most important thing in life: community. My mother once told me that we can’t survive alone,but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to. Without a faction, we have no purpose and no reason to live.”

“My mother told me once that we can't survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn't want to. Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.”

“Living without virtues is to live divorced from society, seperated from the most important thing in life, community.”

“We can’t survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn't want to.”

“In our factions, we find meaning, we find purpose, we find life.”

“My father says that those who want power and get it live in terror of losing it. That's why we have to give power to those who do not want it.”

“I try to think of something helpful to say. I'm not going to die -- but I don't know that. We live in a dangerous world, and I am not so attached to life that I will do anything to survive. I can't reassure him.”