"Power is violence, its promise, its deed. Power cares nothing for reason, nothing for justice, nothing for compassion. It is, in fact, the singular abnegation of these things - once the cloak of deceits is stripped away, this one truth is revealed."

-- Steven Erikson

#Compassion Quotes #Justice Quotes #Promise Quotes

“Steve Dallas...a frat-boy lawyer who I knew in school. He's never written me. I suspect he was shot by an annoyed girlfriend, which has saved me many legal fees.”
“The rockets... can be built so powerfully that they could be capable of carrying a man aloft.”
“If you show people you don't care, they'll return the favor. Show them you care, they'll reciprocate.”
“How many McDonald's gift certificates would it take to sway a lot of Americans to pledge to never publicly criticize the U.S, President?”

Source : "Talkin' to America" with Aaron Zelman, jpfo.org.
“I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.”

Source : "A Dictionary of Thought" edited by Tryon Edwards, (p. 587), 1908.
“When I first came out with Blue, everyone compared me to Patsy Cline, which is the biggest honor, 'cause I've always looked up to her.”
“The first rule for success? Show up.”
“I have never had illusions about the value of my individual contribution! I realized early that what a man or a woman does is built on what those who have gone before have done, that its real value depends on making the matter in hand a little clearer, a little sounder for those who come after. Nobody begins or ends anything. Each person is a link, weak or strong, in an endless chain. One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.”

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