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> [“I think all human beings, even I who have no right to ask more of the world, wish to see the future. I don’t mean the whole future; after a millennium history must progress beyond one’s ability to understand”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-palmer/i-think-all-human-beings-even-i-who-have-no-right-to-ask-more-of-the/)

[Ada Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-palmer/)

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## Other authors on World Wish

## More by Ada Palmer

> [“The more people insist that feminism has won, the more they blind themselves to its remaining foes.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-palmer/the-more-people-insist-that-feminism-has-won-the-more-they-blind/)

[Ada Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-palmer/)

> [“In every corner of the teeming globe people relaxed, believing I was dead. You were not wrong.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-palmer/in-every-corner-of-the-teeming-globe-people-relaxed-believing-i-was/)

[Ada Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-palmer/)

> [“I think all human beings, even I who have no right to ask more of the world, wish to see the future. I don’t…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-palmer/i-think-all-human-beings-even-i-who-have-no-right-to-ask-more-of-the/)

[Ada Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-palmer/)

> [“Predators need the right to tear out each other’s throats.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-palmer/predators-need-the-right-to-tear-out-each-other-s-throats/)

[Ada Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-palmer/)

> [“The witch’s eyes sparkled with secrets. “Sensayers are used to fearing God, so you know the right way to fear me, don’t you?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-palmer/the-witch-s-eyes-sparkled-with-secrets-sensayers-are-used-to-fearing/)

[Ada Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-palmer/)

> [“There has to be an Outsider or the next strangest will be named Outsider.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-palmer/there-has-to-be-an-outsider-or-the-next-strangest-will-be-named/)

[Ada Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-palmer/)

> [“I don’t like boys.” I shook my head. “That’s no impediment to them. Madame raised gentlemen of both sexes.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-palmer/i-don-t-like-boys-i-shook-my-head-that-s-no-impediment-to-them-madame/)

[Ada Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-palmer/)

> [“Never create a personal enemy. Always keep layers of minions between yourself and someone you destroy, it’s safer that way.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-palmer/never-create-a-personal-enemy-always-keep-layers-of-minions-between/)

[Ada Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-palmer/)

> [“I cannot offer wine without the poison of the alcohol within.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-palmer/i-cannot-offer-wine-without-the-poison-of-the-alcohol-within/)

[Ada Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-palmer/)

> [“understood then, but these past years, seeing Bridger’s powers, I let myself fall into the delusion that Providence might be simple.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-palmer/understood-then-but-these-past-years-seeing-bridger-s-powers-i-let/)

[Ada Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-palmer/)

> [“I trust my doctor with my life, but not my dirty laundry.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-palmer/i-trust-my-doctor-with-my-life-but-not-my-dirty-laundry/)

[Ada Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-palmer/)

> [“No one comes to stone the servant when they could watch the execution of the king.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-palmer/no-one-comes-to-stone-the-servant-when-they-could-watch-the-execution/)

[Ada Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-palmer/)

> [“Golden Ages always end with Dark ones.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-palmer/golden-ages-always-end-with-dark-ones/)

[Ada Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-palmer/)

> [“No nation, whatever its power, can be called great when it imposes tyranny upon its citizens—worse, upon people it claims as its citizens, not”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-palmer/no-nation-whatever-its-power-can-be-called-great-when-it-imposes/)

[Ada Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-palmer/)

> [“It doesn’t take a declaration, or an invasion, to start a war, all it takes is an ‘us’ and a ‘them.’ And a spark.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-palmer/it-doesn-t-take-a-declaration-or-an-invasion-to-start-a-war-all-it/)

[Ada Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-palmer/)

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