The Justice of Kings Quotes

“Beware the idiot, the zealot and the tyrant; each clothes himself in the armour of ignorance.”
― Richard Swan, The Justice of Kings

“Power does things to a man’s mind. It unlocks his baser instincts which the process of civilisation has before occluded. Powerful men are closer in mind to wild beasts than they are to their supposed human inferiors.”
― Richard Swan, The Justice of Kings

“Few people will thank you for being cleverer than them. A man will prefer the ravings of his neighbour over the word of the most learned scholar in Sova.” SIR WILLIAM THE HONEST”
― Richard Swan, The Justice of Kings

“Few things in this life can be guaranteed with greater certainty than the incredible contrivances men will go to to generate money from nothing at all.” PHILOSOPHER AND JURIST FRANCIS GERECHT”
― Richard Swan, The Justice of Kings

“When I was a boy in Jägeland”
― Richard Swan, The Justice of Kings

“Justice is not vengeance”
― Richard Swan, The Justice of Kings

“All may be judged by the law”
― Richard Swan, The Justice of Kings

“How could we claim any moral superiority over him when we allowed him to be kicked by his gaolers or starved of victuals?”
― Richard Swan, The Justice of Kings

“To meet a Justice is often to meet a dispassionate automaton”
― Richard Swan, The Justice of Kings

“Power does things to a man’s mind. It unlocks his baser instincts which the process of civilisation has before occluded. Powerful men are closer in mind to wild beasts than they are to their supposed human inferiors.” SIR WILLIAM THE HONEST”
― Richard Swan, The Justice of Kings

“Must we always stick so rigidly to the rules?” Bressinger pulled out his dagger and handed it to me. His expression was firm. “I was a soldier in the Reichskrieg”
― Richard Swan, The Justice of Kings

“It is only now”
― Richard Swan, The Justice of Kings

“Lady Karol Frost; a two-headed wolf cub; a solitary rook in an orchard; and a man tied to a stake in a wildflower meadow”
― Richard Swan, The Justice of Kings

“Azshtre stovakato bratnya to zi chovekna eyrsvet linata. Kogata govoria dumitenta boga maĭka”
― Richard Swan, The Justice of Kings

“To drag words from the lips of the dead is a vile and irreligious practice”
― Richard Swan, The Justice of Kings

“It is frankly a miracle that any person makes it out of their adolescence even vaguely sane. I am still not sure that I did.”
― Richard Swan, The Justice of Kings

“It is impossible to impress upon a man the severity of a situation until the point of its remedy is long past. ’Tis something to do with the nature of a human being”
― Richard Swan, The Justice of Kings

“The wise man arms himself with knowledge before a sword,’” I quoted.”
― Richard Swan, The Justice of Kings

“Bad tidings and wise counsel are as easily ignored as one another.” OLD MAGISTRATUM PROVERB”
― Richard Swan, The Justice of Kings

“I have not been kissed before,” I said. “Nor have I,” Matas admitted. “I did not think my first would be with one so beautiful.”
― Richard Swan, The Justice of Kings

“Only a Justice may compel a man to speak where it is not in his interest to do so.”
― Richard Swan, The Justice of Kings

“With the crime of murder”
― Richard Swan, The Justice of Kings

“The Emperor’s Voice: the arcane power of a Justice to compel a person to speak the truth. It had its limitations – it did not work on other Justices”
― Richard Swan, The Justice of Kings

“Beware the idiot”
― Richard Swan, The Justice of Kings

“He was my first love and he was snatched cruelly from me. I did not just mourn him; I mourned the life I could have had. That we could have had.”
― Richard Swan, The Justice of Kings

“Empires are built and maintained with words. Swords are a mere precedent to the quill.”
― Richard Swan, The Justice of Kings

“Disease accounts not for rank; it takes emperors as swiftly and easily as it takes paupers.”
― Richard Swan, The Justice of Kings

“Bad tidings and wise counsel are as easily ignored as one another.”
― Richard Swan, The Justice of Kings

“Act in haste”
― Richard Swan, The Justice of Kings

“It was hard not to be coloured by the swamp of prejudice when you were anchored to its bed.”
― Richard Swan, The Justice of Kings