“Throughout the history of men there’s always been some kind of drug, and the people stuck on it. The people… — Jack L. Chalker
“Throughout the history of men there’s always been some kind of drug, and the people stuck on it. The people who push the stuff are on a different kind of drug, one so powerful that they are not aware of its own, ravaging, animalistic effect on them.”
“What’s that?”
“Power and greed,” he told her. “The ugliest—no, the second ugliest ravager of people ever known.”
“What’s the ugliest then?” she asked him.
“Fear,” he replied seriously. “It destroys, rots, and touches everyone around.”
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