# Reckoning

## Metadata
- Author: [[Mark Goodwin]]
- Full Title: Reckoning
- Category: #books
## Highlights
- When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic. Benjamin Franklin ([Location 1084](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0BPF2DKWG&location=1084))
- Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it: though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord God. Ezekiel 14:13-14 ([Location 1573](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0BPF2DKWG&location=1573))
- “Electricity requires energy inputs, oil, coal, gas, nuclear. It requires huge plants that are built and maintained with expensive parts that aren’t easily substituted. Even the transmission lines, substations, and transformers require complex supply chains to run flawlessly. We’re taking a big bet if we put all our trust in a supply chain that has to operate without any hiccups.” ([Location 2232](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0BPF2DKWG&location=2232))
- The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Edmond Burke ([Location 3883](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0BPF2DKWG&location=3883))