“It's no good trying to get yourself killed, General. The Lord will come for you in His own time.”
Michael Shaara book The Killer Angels
Captain Goree, Part IV, CH 5: Longsteet, p.355
The Killer Angels (1974)
“The Mollusks—generous hosts when they weren’t trying to kill you.”
— Dave Barry, book Peter and the Starcatchers
Source: Peter and the Starcatchers
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Context: The end result of complete cellular representation is cancer. Democracy is cancerous, and bureaus are its cancer. A bureau takes root anywhere in the state, turns malignant like the Narcotic Bureau, and grows and grows, always reproducing more of its own kind, until it chokes the host if not controlled or excised. Bureaus cannot live without a host, being true parasitic organisms. (A cooperative on the other hand can live without the state. That is the road to follow. The building up of independent units to meet needs of the people who participate in the functioning of the unit. A bureau operates on opposite principles of inventing needs to justify its existence.) Bureaucracy is wrong as a cancer, a turning away from the human evolutionary direction of infinite potentials and differentiation and independent spontaneous action to the complete parasitism of a virus. (It is thought that the virus is a degeneration from more complex life-form. It may at one time have been capable of independent life. Now has fallen to the borderline between living and dead matter. It can exhibit living qualities only in a host, by using the life of another — the renunciation of life itself, a falling towards inorganic, inflexible machine, towards dead matter.) Bureaus die when the structure of the state collapse. They are as helpless and unfit for independent existence as a displaced tapeworm, or a virus that has killed the host.
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Sed convivatoris uti ducis ingenium res
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The Third Book of Criticism (1969)
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