The Black Banner Quotes

“We can't change the world by shouting, but our words can have meaning if we give them enough respect.”
― Evan Meekins, The Black Banner

“Even though we don't admit it, every single one of us aspires to be like somebody, whether they live in the world today, within the bard's lyrics, or on the pages in the Library”
― Evan Meekins, The Black Banner

“it's through the simple things in life, through its games, when our minds mature the most and we grow knowledgeable. It's also when the cloth masks of our outer, false personalities are torn asunder, and we are able to see every last blemish of a man's genuine character that they hide beneath... no matter how dark or obscene it may be.”
― Evan Meekins, The Black Banner

“While parchment may burn and gold may be stained or melted down, the things that are truly important to us will never lose their value.”
― Evan Meekins, The Black Banner

“Let your dissent fuel you, your anger inspire you, your rage convey you, and your fury strike a chilling fear onto the spines of your enemies.”
― Evan Meekins, The Black Banner

“Before I fix the world, I have to fix myself.”
― Evan Meekins, The Black Banner

“there are some some times in life where you have to let your feelings go and do what must be done”
― Evan Meekins, The Black Banner

“Love is not measured by acts or years, but by truth between two people.”
― Evan Meekins, The Black Banner

“the bleakest situations bring out the hospitality in all of us, but it's during the harshest we find out how strong we really are.”
― Evan Meekins, The Black Banner

“With the threat of them being potential spies or saboteurs, nobody will argue against our actions, and history itself will vindicate us.”
― Evan Meekins, The Black Banner

“War was easy. The hard part was cleaning up afterward.”
― Evan Meekins, The Black Banner

“Woe is the mind of the common man, so easily controlled by the prospect of an ambition never to be truly attained. This is what tyrants live on and by what commoners are blissfully burdened and subdued.”
― Evan Meekins, The Black Banner

“There is no right or wrong, only what we believe is more right or more wrong”
― Evan Meekins, The Black Banner

“If we truly detach from our childhood and abandon our inherent romanticism, then we shred any bit of humanity left in us.”
― Evan Meekins, The Black Banner

“Hate did not give way to heroism.”
― Evan Meekins, The Black Banner

“Respect the dead, learn from them, do not follow or avenge them.”
― Evan Meekins, The Black Banner

“We must kill the guard before we can enter the palace.”
― Evan Meekins, The Black Banner

“Heralds don't sing about men who lived in orthodoxy or played it safe, they sing about men who lived an uncertain future and took enough risks to make your head spin.”
― Evan Meekins, The Black Banner

“Some justice, though did not deal with kindheartedness or good feeling toward others. No, justice had a darker side, a gray area where it mingled alongside vengeance, and only the wise and pure of heart were able to tell the two apart. That kind of justice was swift. It was only called upon afer mercy and morals fail. It was the darkest form of goodness known to anyone, even the gods, and required only the strongest, most daring men to bring about.”
― Evan Meekins, The Black Banner

“A true leader is not meant to be greeted with unanimous praise by his people. A leader is meant to be questioned, to be suspect, to be hated. If he is not, then one can easily assume that either he has not challenged his abilities as a leader by making a decision that creates a split between the people, or he is forcing his subjects to bow before him.”
― Evan Meekins, The Black Banner

“a true leader must be able to command with an iron fist, not just a humble heart.”
― Evan Meekins, The Black Banner

“Animals do not respect their master's brother, but they do respect their brothers as masters.”
― Evan Meekins, The Black Banner

“the illusion that power lies within the hands of the common man is more important than legitimate efficiency within the government.”
― Evan Meekins, The Black Banner

“The festive music died down and the granite pillars were replaced with rotted wooden beams as he continued down the alleyways. The scent of fresh flowers turned to mold, and the colorful mosiacs of honor and nobility were nonexistent. Run-down tenements were shadowed by its surrounding buildings, as if the capital itself wanted to conceal its existence.”
― Evan Meekins, The Black Banner

“He is a free man, not because is in a poition of political power and influence that you will never be able to achieve, and not because he has more character and heart in his fingertip than you have in your entire being, but because he is a man, and is thus entitled to be free.”
― Evan Meekins, The Black Banner

“They were rebellious through their artistic expression and their uplifting spirits”
― Evan Meekins, The Black Banner

“Do not forget about the butterflies.”
― Evan Meekins, The Black Banner

“The dominoes of fate are falling down as we are speaking, and Ferriar knows what will happen when the last one crashes down.”
― Evan Meekins, The Black Banner

“Milcas raced out his door, anxious to find the answer to this riddle and discover the source of hope for a Roegan in Fargranther; the propellant of an unheard of, forgotten, impossible, and by all accounts, damned idea.”
― Evan Meekins, The Black Banner

“It had become their creation, and they all would know it.”
― Evan Meekins, The Black Banner