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“find that even this idea of duty undergoes change, and that the greatest”

— Swami Vivekananda

“All established order forms a line of resistance against the threat of rupture and places its meager forces at the service of continuity. That…

— Julio Cortázar

“And it ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“This is how command passes from a weak officer to a stronger. No rank alters; no papers are filed. Without a word, every man…

— Steven Pressfield

“Despite noble depravity, there was something intoxicating about high society.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“But…history was full of the bones of good men who’d followed bad orders in the hope that they could soften the blow. Oh, yes,…

— Terry Pratchett

“And let it be noted that there is no more delicate matter to take in hand, nor more dangerous to conduct, nor more doubtful…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“Custom is the lord of everything, of mortals and immortals king. High violence it justifies, with hand uplifted plundering.”

— Pindar

“It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“They took over from the old order not only most of its customs, conventions, and modes of thought, but even those ideas which prompted…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“The dismantling of privilege requires the disavowal of any pretense of exceptionalism. Lamentations”

— Soong-Chan Rah

“when one had taken that first determined step out into the rest of one’s life, one had to keep on striding forward—or retreat and…

— Mary Balogh