There always has to be a balance between freedom and restriction; that is fundamental to any society. Without law there is anarchy. But too much law, applied rigorously, becomes oppression
The human race, for all our facets and our institutional stupidity, is something I believe in. I admire our diversity, our stubbornness. The dynamic of conflict is one of our greatest traits.
Resolution, the ability and determination to see things through to the end. However unexpected or disappointing that end turns out to be.
National and regional governments were committing vast resources into combating the biosphere breakdown. Social welfare, infrastructure administration, health care, and security — the fields governmen...
Most people who have failed miserably in life itself have one last resort left available to them, they become a politician.
Lawyers had abolished the simple concept of right and wrong, turning it into degrees of guilt.
Justine watched two azure moons traverse the sparkling smear of Wall stars. They were in very strange orbits. And moving impossibly fast – actually accelerating. ‘Oh my God,’ she gasped. The Raiel’s p...
It’s only going to take another week of this and we’re going to have the mother of all humanitarian crises on our hands. The Independencies are already living on food stocks that aren’t going to last...
If you want to understand how a government works, the laws tell you.
Ian kept his brain in his dick,
Ian chuckled. You know what the world’s greatest oxymoron is? Happily married, Sid said wearily.
I believe I understand, friend Orion, Tochee said. You are attracted to the young female of your species. Is she one totally fuckable babe?
Hope doesn’t die just because a life is lost, or even a million lives.
Formal address wrongness. Much sorriness. Greetings ritual observance.
Fanatics,’ Kandara replied automatically. ‘I’m no longer surprised by what they do, by the misery and suffering they inflict on others. Ideology is a sick soul-meme; it gnaws basic decency away until...
Everybody in the GE used secondaries. It was part of the culture now; socially acceptable. There had been many attempts by the Brussels parliament to legislate against it, and the Tax Bureau certainly...
Ego had brought him to this point, that stupid refusal to quit the case, to simply do the job according to procedure and pick up the monthly salary transfer. Now look where it had brought him, sitting...
But to have dreamed the dream is to have flown above the mountains so high in all but deed.
Back in the day, surplus harvests or an excess of rare minerals had been quietly shoved out into oblivion, assisting the market price, reaping bigger profits for the financial sectors at the expense o...
As if we didn't have enough weapons already. But that's human nature, we've always got to go one better, to increase the terror another notch.