“"Fear is a hammer, and when the people are beaten finally to the conviction that their existence hangs by a frayed thread, they will be led where they need to go."
"Which is where?"
"To a responsible future in a properly managed world."”

—  Dean Koontz, book The Good Guy

Conversation between Wentworth and Timothy Carrier
Chapter 63, p. 368
The Good Guy (2007)

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