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

“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

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

“They are like a room full of philosophers, with each of them considering themselves smarter than the next man. They all think they are about to outmanoeuvre one another, but the truth is we are heading for a calamitous fall.”
― Richard Swan, The Justice of Kings

“Beware the idiot, the zealot and the tyrant; each clothes himself in the armor of ignorance.”
― Richard Swan, The Justice of Kings: Empire of the Wolf, Book 1