“Fear lasted a week, anger a year and resentment a lifetime.”

— Iain Banks , Culture series

Source: Culture series, Matter (2008), Chapter 17 “Departures” (p. 305)
Context: On this purely practical issue he judged massacre wasteful and even contrary as a method of control.

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