The bad guys tend to enjoy killing people, preferably in large numbers. The good guys – and girls – don’t… — Iain M. Banks
The bad guys tend to enjoy killing people, preferably in large numbers. The good guys – and girls – don’t; they get a buzz when infant mortality rates go down and life expectancy goes up. The bad guys like to tell people what to do, the good guys are happy to encourage people to make up their own minds. The bad guys like to keep the riches and the power to themselves and their cronies, the good guys want the money and power spread evenly, subject to the making-up-your-own-minds thing.
p. 322Source: Wikiquote · CC BY-SA 4.0
More from this book
It’s even more important to prosecute police who’ve broken the law than it is to prosecute anybody else, because otherwise nobody trusts the police.
p. 266
I only tell them that because that’s what they like to hear, what they want to hear. That’s one of the lessons I’ve learned, isn’t it? You can go a long way just telling people what they want to hear. Of course, you got to be careful, and you got to choose the right people, but still, know that I mean?
p. 16
One of the wisest things anybody ever said to me was that if all you ever care about is money, money is all that will ever care for you.
p. 65
