Quotes from Steve Berry

Communism's entire existence depended on coercion.

Ad Designandum Hastam. The Point of the Spear. For centuries that

no different from the myriad of other politicos he'd bought and sold from around the world, men and women eager for power and lacking in conscience.

Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. It is destiny which makes them prudent.

To manufacture fear you have to mobilize a large portion of the people to accept it exists. That takes work. Blood must be shed. Terrorism, if you will. But to counterfeit fear? That's much easier. All you have to do is silence those who call fear into question.

Right, wrong, doesn't matter. Just do something.

Faith was the death of reason. Faith relied on blind allegiance, without thought, only an unquestioned belief.

Lincoln was right. Do I not destroy my enemy when I make them my friend?

Lies have short legs.

Hate still exists. Bigotry can be manipulated. The masses are gullible.

people nearly always left trails. It's human nature

The Koran likewise. The Magna Carta. The American Constitution. Billions of people govern their lives by those words. Society has been altered by them.

Remember, the second mouse to the trap is the one who always gets the cheese.

punctilious

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed. - Mahatma Gandhi

Principles had a nasty way of interfering with results.

Knowledge should never be feared.

Tell me, Bruce, what's it like to be second? Never the captain. Always the lieutenant.

I was born for the storm, and a calm does not suit me.

I like what Flaubert once wrote. History is prophecy, looking backwards.

Speed lacks careful thought and generates too much risk.

that all-important first impression, a narrative that is totally within your control, so work it to your advantage.

truth is only needed when sufficient reasons make it necessary

But we are not the center of the universe, you and I, neither as individuals nor as the representatives of the whole human race. God's universe must be considered as one great whole composed of interrelated parts, and its majestic purpose is not the gratification of our puny selves.'