We can try to act civilized and polite, but at the bottom of it all, the power of any ruler is based on a threat. Fortunately, we don’t have to carry that threat out too often.
Just because I love her, it doesn’t mean that I love you less.
No matter how professional soldiers might be, an avoided battle was always good news.
Fear’s a part of life, Mandorallen, and it’s the only life we have.
The land, indifferent to human boundaries, flowed on unchanged.
We was doing a lot of what our officers called “maneuvering” – which is officer talk for running.
Actually it’s very simple, but simple things are always the hardest to explain.
Some stories have a beginning, a middle, and an end. Other stories never end, maybe because they’re alive.
It’s the easiest thing in the world to judge things by appearances, Ce’Nedra,” she said, “and it’s usually wrong.
Morality deals with what we might like to do, but politics deals with what we must do. There’s no connection between them at all.
The victories of the imagination involved no risks, and a confrontation with an enemy always ended satisfactorily when both sides of the conversation came from one’s own daydreams.
You’ve been away from home too long if you can get lost on the way from the harbor to the palace.
For what place can be left for anything to happen at random so long as God controls everything in order? It is a true saying that nothing can come out of nothing.
Democratic Development is a process of political struggle in which democrats work gains the upper hand in the society over non-democrats which directs aid at core political processes and institutions especially elections, political parties and politically oriented civil groups.
Sorgan tried his very best not to think about how long it must have taken for a stream that small to eat its way down through solid rock to form its current bed. Sorgan knew exactly what the word “hundred” meant, but when numbers wandered off toward “thousand” – or even “million” – and the people who used those terms were talking about years, Sorgan’s mind shied back in horror.
He had performed that last service that a man can perform for a friend – he had told the truth about him.
In spite of this universal plunge toward matrimony, I still haven’t lost my senses. If worse comes to worse, I still know how to run.
There was an almost musical flow to his illiterate speech, a kind of warm inclusiveness that paid no attention to any kind of social distinctions, and a shrewd, even penetrating, assessment of the chaos around him.
I thought the trees down in Lady Zelana’s country were about as big as a tree could get,” he said, “but the ones around here are so tall that they probably tickle the moon’s tummy when she goes by.
Love, My Goddess loves us all, and she gave up Bhelliom willingly out of that love. Bhelliom can’t begin to understand love. In the end that may be our only defense against it.