The combination of modern ordnance and outdated tactics had, as usual, created enormous casualties on both sides.
A guilty system recognizes no innocents. - Iain Banks
A guilty system recognizes no innocents.
- Iain Banks
My gratitude extends beyond the limits of my capacity to express it. - Iain Banks
My gratitude extends beyond the limits of my capacity to express it.
One should never mistake pattern for meaning. - Iain Banks
One should never mistake pattern for meaning.
I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven. - Iain Banks
I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven.
Political correctness is what right-wing bigots call what everybody else calls being polite - Iain Banks
Political correctness is what right-wing bigots call what everybody else calls being polite
The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have chosen to put profits before people, money before… - Iain Banks
The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have chosen to put profits before people, money before…
There's an old Sysan saying that the soup of life is salty enough without adding tears to it. - Iain Banks
There's an old Sysan saying that the soup of life is salty enough without adding tears to it.
Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people ar… - Iain Banks
Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people ar…
A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens. - Iain Banks
A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
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