Achieve Quote by H. Beam Piper

“Vengeance is a strange human motivation --- it can drive a man to do things which he neither would nor could achieve without it ... and because of that it lies behind some of the greatest sagas of human literature!” quote by H. Beam Piper — Download Open image

“Vengeance is a strange human motivation --- it can drive a man to do things which he neither would nor could achieve without it ... and because of that it lies behind some of the greatest sagas of human literature!”

H. Beam Piper

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Keep a goverment poor and weak and it's your servant; when it is rich and powerful it becomes your master.

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“What I object to is the way you're raiding the Sword-Worlds." "You're crazy!" Basil Gorram exploded. "Young man," Harkaman reproved, "the conversation was between Lord Trask and myself. And when somebody makes a statement you don't understand, don't tell him he's crazy. Ask him what he means. What do you mean, Lord Trask?”

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English is the result of Norman men-at-arms attempting to pick up Saxon barmaids and is no more legitimate than any of the other results.

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“Simon, speaking as one sovereign prince to another, you have a lot to learn. You've learned one important lesson already, that a ruler must be willing to use force and shed blood to enforce his rule. You have to learn, too, that a ruler cannot afford to be guided by his fears of what people will say about him. Not…

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“On Aditya, such would be unthinkable; on Aditya, everybody respects authority. Whether it's respectable or not.”

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Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use anything, even prayer.

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