“Some think of Islam as an expedient jobs program that moves the female half of the population out of the way.”

“Connor Crane was currently the secret crush of half the female HHH population. And a couple of the males, too.”

“I don’t care about being cool. I just want to be loved by half the world (100% of the female population).”

“There is perhaps some hope to be derived from the fact that in most instances where an attempt to realize an ideal society gave birth to the ugliness and violence of a prolonged active mass movement the experiment was made on a vast scale and with a heterogeneous population. Such was the case in the rise of Christianity and Islam, and in the French, Russian and Nazi revolutions. The promising communal settlements in the small state of Israel and the successful programs of socialization in the small Scandinavian states indicate perhaps that when the attempt to realize an ideal society is undertaken by a small nation with a more or less homogeneous population it can proceed and succeed in an atmosphere which is neither hectic nor coercive.”

“Lord help the female population if Kellan and I have a boy one day.”

“While the Arab guerrillas were moving in, the Arab civilian population was moving out. —I.F. Stone reporting from Israel during 1948 War of Independence”