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When power is gone the memory of power lingers.

— Guy Gavriel Kay Tigana (1990)

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He didn’t think he would understand the strangeness of life if he lived to be a hundred years old.

Tigana (1990)

Music trains the mind, like mathematics, or logic, to precision of mind.

Tigana (1990)

I suppose being right will have to compensate me for being poor—the story of my life, I fear.

Tigana (1990)

In this world, where we find ourselves, we need compassion more than anything, I think, or we are all alone.

Tigana (1990)

“Sometimes the blind to do with the blind.”
“Yeah,” said Ned. “Straight over cliffs.”

Ysabel (2007)

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The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.

John Adams A Defence of the Constitutions of Government (1787)

There is no governor anywhere; you are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped.

Robert Anton Wilson

When we see a great man desiring power instead of his real goal we soon recognize that he is sick, or more precisely that his attitude to his work is sick.

Martin Buber What is Man? (1938)

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

C. S. Lewis God in the Dock (1970)

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