Those Above Quotes

“Every man and woman is distinct from every other. But every mob is the same mob, whether composed of mineworkers or monarchs.”
― Daniel Polansky, Those Above

“A lie was an admission of weakness, evidence that you needed to fear the target of your dishonesty.”
― Daniel Polansky, Those Above

“Truly, fear is the better part of human wisdom – one might say that the whole of prudence consists of ranking our fears appropriately, and dealing with each according to the severity of the danger represented.”
― Daniel Polansky, Those Above

“Bitterness avails no one.”
― Daniel Polansky, Those Above

“but then again what we seem to be is not always what we are.”
― Daniel Polansky, Those Above

“Had Eudokia been granted divinity she’d have found something better to do with it than watching two old farts in ugly robes mutter gibberish over summer wine.”
― Daniel Polansky, Those Above

“Experience does not necessarily lead to understanding,’ the”
― Daniel Polansky, Those Above

“is not despair, nor melancholy destitution.”
― Daniel Polansky, Those Above

“Duplicity was not the sole province of the capital, Bas knew, but the honest inheritance of the entire species.”
― Daniel Polansky, Those Above

“It is not enough to be intelligent,’ Eudokia said, setting up the pieces for a second game. ‘One must also be vicious.”
― Daniel Polansky, Those Above

“an inability to understand the weakness in his fellow men that left him barely more than competent in the internecine feuding at the heart of the Aelerian political machine. It”
― Daniel Polansky, Those Above