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Society is, always has been and always will be a structure for the exploitation and oppression of the majority through systems of political force dictated by an élite, enforced by thugs, uniformed or not, and upheld by a wilful ignorance and stupidity on the part of the very majority whom the system oppresses.

— Richard Morgan Richard Morgan (2002)

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Morgan discussing his "take away" of his novel Altered Carbon

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