How do you get away with it? Above all, how do you persuade people to risk their lives in order to kill total strangers whom they know almost literally nothing about? Why, the answer's simple. You lie to them! John Brunner
Even soldiers in battle have to be brought to a special state of mental excitement to shoot total strangers. Lois McMaster Bujold
Only five days on this benighted world, and already total strangers are trying to kill me. Sadly, it wasn't even a record. Lois McMaster Bujold
Lima frightened him, it was too big, you could lose yourself in it and never find your way home; the people on the street were total strangers. Mario Vargas Llosa
I want to speak, to sing to total strangers. It's my way of talking to the world. Adrian Mitchell
I think I'd probably tell you that it's easier to desire and pursue the attention of tens of millions of total strangers than it is to accept the love and loyalty of the people closest to us. William Gibson