From 'A Few Notes on the Culture', an essay about Iain M. Banks's fictional galactic society, in The State of the Art:
... In all but the most dedicatedly repressive hegemonies, if in a sizable population there are one hundred rebels, all of whom are then rounded up and killed, the number of rebels present at the end of the day is not zero, and not even one hundred, but two hundred or three hundred or more; an equation based on human nature which seems often to baffle the military and political mind.
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Poof! No more comment spam. Thank you kindly for calling my attention to it! Just lucky, I guess. Next time I get some I'll share it with you. I'm a generous sort.
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