“Once people envisioned the possibility of change in a fixed order, the end of an age of submission came in sight, the turn to individual conscience lay ahead. To that extent the Black Death may have been the unrecognized beginning of modern man.” Barbara Tuchman
“…a total of 15 certificates of achievement and decoration verified his integrity and competence for all the world to see. On some days he would haze at the rows of his awards in smug satisfaction. On others, he would search within the frames for some proof that he was a good man.” Michael D. Weaver, Mercedes Nights
“Somewhere in somebody’s sacred scripture it says: ‘And there shall be caused to be built dark alleys wherein the mockers and the unrighteous shall in their turn have their heads laid open and in likewise their fat lips busted; and even this shall be pleasing in the sight of Heaven.'” George Alec Effinger, Marid Audran When Gravity Fails
