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‘Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.’ ”
“Y’know, there’s nothing more dangerous than an intellectual with power,” I say in a light and conversational tone, as though we were back arguing over a jug of wine at Garthan Hold. “He can rationalize any crime, and he’s certainly not going to let abstractions like justice, loyalty, or honor get in his way.”
“Subtlety is for the weak. It is a wheedling tactic they use to achieve their desires, when they lack the power to do so directly.”
‘The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Thus all progress depends on the unreasonable man.’ ”
