If you wanted to know what a man was thinking, check the view from his favorite spot.
Government isn't about religion or signs or symbols… It's about power and control.
Give the agent something easy to reject, something to justify his authority - that way they won't look too closely at the rest of your things.
Because Rakkim knew the seduction of hiding in plain sight. The singular pleasure of blending into the background, of setting the table in the house of the enemy and watching him eat dinner.
Murder is a sin. It's a sin in Judaism, it's a sin in Christianity, it's a sin in Islam and every other…- I'll decide what's a sin.
Reunification's a fine idea, as long as you get rid of all the people that go to sleep at night praying that God strikes the other side dead,
People need symbols, something greater than their own lives.
Man goes looking for trouble, trouble's got a habit of following the scent right back to him.
He had to appreciate a creature that knew what it was doing.
Whatever works, that's my philosophy. I don't care if it's magic beans or a prayer cloth dipped in the Jordan River.
Takes a while for a person to decide what they like best. Some folks never do decide. Always changing their mind, back and forth.
People believed what made them comfortable. What fit with their preconceptions of how the world worked.
Getting older... mostly it entails accepting the unacceptable.
Not like God reads minds or anything.- He better not, or we're all fucked forever.
Studying history is for tourists - polite, tidy people with clean desks and clean consciences. Making history is for people willing to get their hands dirty, to make mistake and lie when necessary, so...
Without loyalty all the training in the world is useless. Worse than useless.