Empire Quote by Karen Traviss Download Open image ““That's how tyranny succeeds. When folks think it won't affect them until eventually it does.”” — Karen Traviss ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Empire Karen-traviss Star wars
“Tyranny over the mind is the most complete and most brutal type of tyranny; every other tyranny begins and ends with it.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Tyranny is a form of perversion. We come to love it. Every government is a tyranny to a degree, and the more evil it… — Geoff Ryman Copy Share Image
“I do not believe in the unlimited power of the majority,because tyranny of the majority is tyranny like any other.” — Alija Izetbegović Copy Share Image
“This is how tyrants fall. By destroying their people, they destroy themselves.” — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
“Every manmade disaster begins when one man thinks for another. However benevolent they begin, the ultimate outcome is tyranny.” — John Kramer Copy Share Image
“We the People have the power that becomes the power but the power abuses its power becoming tyrannical to its source of power.” — Jose R. Coronado Copy Share Image
“Gradually, you see, our people are coming into the power they have always thought is their due.” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to do… — John Le Carre Copy Share Image
“We have complete choice as individuals: the only decisions we can take are our own. And yet so many species use the state of… — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
If you take a shot at someone, you keep firing until they can no longer return fire. Wound them, and you have an angry… — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
I'd probably play games obsessively if I didn't write, although I admit I don't read novels partly because I don't enjoy it, not just… — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
“Hope was evil. It seduced you, then it dropped you on your ass so hard and so fast that you were worse off than… — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
“Nowhere does it say free speech is carte blanche to be a jerk. And don't cheapen real free speech by hijacking an honourable concept… — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
I've got a particular way of writing novels, and that carries over into the way I write comics and games, too. I'm a news… — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
I fail to understand why gethes (Humans), talk about individuals versus society. They are the same thing. The action of every individual counts, and… — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
“And nobody has the right to judge a soldier from the warmth and safety of their armchair.” — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
“Any sign of what killed him, Scorch?" "Let's ask Sev. He's a dead-body-ologist." [Sev examines the body and its arm falls off] "Yep, he's… — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
Characters have changed my mind about some very fundamental moral issues, and that's the real satisfaction in the way I write - the ultimate… — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
People lose it when I say this, but I'm a novelist who doesn't read novels. There are lots of good reasons for not reading… — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
“Oh, you are a little ray of sunshine today, aren’t you? Now, look at your progesterone levels. Still higher than normal. Are you pregnant?… — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
We'd always come into Syracuse for the Empire State Games and the stair fair. — Beau Biden Copy Share Image
“I got tired of constantly watching shrewd little bullies like you walk around like you mean something, like you’re better than the people that… — Christopher Rankin Copy Share Image
The Romans have provided a lot of writers with a model for various interstellar empires, of course, and no wonder. The Roman Empire is… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
When I first came to New York City, what I was thrilled about was not the Empire State Building, or the Statue of Liberty;… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
Basically, what Economic Hit Men are trained to do is to build up the American empire. To create situations where as many resources as… — John Perkins Copy Share Image
“The Age of Intellect is accompanied by surprising advances in natural science. In the ninth century, for example, in the age of Mamun, the… — John Bagot Glubb Copy Share Image
In seeking an empire of liberty, Jefferson wished not only to expand the country's territorial holdings, but also to extend American institutions around the… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
When I did 'Racing Demon' by David Hare, I worked with Paul Giamatti, who had stacks of books in his dressing room. I was… — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
Aging nations have arteries clogged with obsolete laws, slowing blood flow and preventing oxygen from reaching all parts of the body politic. Physicians call… — Jim Cooper Copy Share Image