Paul Bulmer

“Authority systems must be based on people arranged in a hierarchy. Thus the critical question in determining control is, Who is over whom? How much over is far less important than the visible presence of a ranked ordering.”
― Stanley Milgram, Obedience to Authority

“We are all victims of our lives. Some of us accept our circumstances better than others. Some rot from the inside out until every word they speak drips with sourness or venom. I suppose that”
― Eric Schumacher, Sigurd's Swords

“You could spoil anything by worrying too much.”
― Ken Follett, The Evening and the Morning

“Caratacus stood at the mouth of a cave contemplating the scene below him. The stream pouring through the gulley had carved this feature in the landscape over tens of thousands of years and the water fell angrily from the inaccessible gorges above. For years, it had been the hiding place of fugitives and brigands, but the sight of five hundred battle weary warriors descending on their hideout had persuaded the incumbents it was probably in their interests to move out, and Caratacus had taken over the gorge with little argument. - Chapter 35”
― K.M. Ashman, The Fall of Britannia