The Amber Project Quotes

“That’s the illusion they preach, the trick you end up believing is real. They tell you true power is dictated by the dictator, because he lives in the ivory tower with his finger on the trigger, but the secret they keep, the part they refuse to tell you during your adolescent indoctrination…is that none of that is true. “Real power,” she said, “isn’t dealt in bullets, darlings, but in words.”
― J.N. Chaney, The Amber Project

“Every leader who made a difference didn’t do it with a sword or a gun, but with a voice that might have moved a mountain.”
― J.N. Chaney, The Amber Project

“whatever paradise or hell it might take him.”
― J.N. Chaney, The Amber Project

“Everyone seems to think power comes from a weapon, from something you can hold in your hands and aim at someone’s skull. A bully picks up a stick in the schoolyard and makes a threat, and see how he is rewarded. The weaker children obey, not out of love, but fear. This practice doesn’t change when we grow older. The only thing that changes is the stick becomes a bomb, and the bully wears a uniform and calls himself a king.”
― J.N. Chaney, The Amber Project

“It was a theory based on centuries of traditional science. And it failed. Why? Because deep down in the back of our minds, we are fundamentally afraid of change. But Nature operates on change, on adaptability. If we cannot adapt, we cannot progress. And if we cannot progress, we will die. If we can accept this fundamental truth, we can move forward.”
― J.N. Chaney, The Amber Project

“Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.–Carl Sagan”
― J.N. Chaney, The Amber Project

“That’s the illusion they preach, the trick you end up believing is real. They tell you true power is dictated by the dictator, because he lives in the ivory tower with his finger on the trigger, but the secret they keep, the part they refuse to tell you during your adolescent indoctrination… is that none of that is true. Real power isn’t dealt in bullets, darlings, but in words. Words that stir a man to stand when all the rest have fled… to fight unwinnable wars, all for the sake of a thought. Every leader who made a difference didn’t do it with a sword or a gun, but with a voice that might have moved a mountain. Think of all the revolutions, all the great religions whose followers once numbered in the billions, and understand me when I tell you: they started with a few delusional fools, conspiring in a room.”
― J.N. Chaney, The Amber Project

“Exploiting situations to gain public favor is politics in a nutshell, darling.”
― J.N. Chaney, The Amber Project

“Better than terrible. Worse than okay. It was mediocrity. Wonderful, beautiful, unnoticeable mediocrity.”
― J.N. Chaney, The Amber Project

“But Nature operates on change, on adaptability. If we cannot adapt, we cannot progress. And if we cannot progress, we will die. If we can accept this fundamental truth, we can move forward.”
― J.N. Chaney, The Amber Project

“so if I see any one of you acting up, even a little, I’m gonna walk over to your seat, quietly pull you out of the room, and positively, absolutely beat the stupid right out of you.”
― J.N. Chaney, The Amber Project

“Real power isn’t dealt in bullets, darlings, but in words. Words that stir a man to stand when all the rest have fled…to fight unwinnable wars, all for the sake of a thought. Every leader who made a difference didn’t do it with a sword or a gun, but with a voice that might have moved a mountain. Think of all the revolutions, all the great religions whose followers once numbered in the billions, and understand me when I tell you: they started with a few delusional fools, conspiring in a”
― J.N. Chaney, The Amber Project

“shit.”
― J.N. Chaney, The Amber Project