The number one crime in any age: offending the money. — Charles Stross

Politics is shit; it corrupts everything it touches, and getting involved in it only leads to misery and dissatisfaction.

“Freedom?” The word tastes bitter. “What’s freedom ever done for me? Seems to me I’ve been free almost all my life, but what has it gotten me? Really?”

She’s silent for only a moment. “Ask not what it’s gotten you, kid. Ask what it’s saved you from.”