59 Quotes by C. Robert Cargill

Man fears what he does not understand, and every-thing else he first subverts, then controls or, ultimately, destroys.

We have become the very worst parts of our makers, without the little things, the good things, the magic things, that made them them.

The only thing that lives on is the part that makes everyone they left behind who they are.

Choices are just the result of programming. I don’t care if it’s chemical, biological, digital, or experiential. You react the way you are programmed to react and you call it choice because you believe that you could have violated your programming.

No thinking thing should be another thing’s property.

And as the sun sank behind the curve of the earth, I crossed my fingers, praying silently to myself. Please let there be magic. Just this once, let me see the magic in the flash. Let me see God in it. Let me see what the point of all this was. Let me see the magic. Please be magic. Please be magic there. Please be... magic.

What we do in life is one thing. What we do in the face of death is everything else.

Succumbing to our own nature isn’t a choice, it’s our default setting.

Everyone had a lesson waiting, and they learned it with blood. Sometimes that’s how it goes. People learn from failure and tragedy, not from success.