One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them.
~ Iain Banks

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There is a saying that we provide the machines with an end, and they provide us with the means.
~ Iain Banks

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A guilty system recognizes no innocents. As with any power apparatus which thinks everybody’s either for it or against it, we’re against it. You would be too, if you thought about it. The very way you think places you among its enemies. This might not be your fault, because every society imposes some of its values on those raised within it, but the point is that some societies try to maximize that effect, and some try to minimize it.
~ Iain Banks

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