Quotes About Power

Padlina bÄ™dzie dla was, czarodziejów, nikt wam jej nie zabierze. Chyba ?e inne sÄ™py.

Since the dawn of time woman has been the root of all evil! The tool of Chaos, the accomplice in a conspiracy against the world and the human race! Woman is governed

Because the people are ignorant, stupid, and easy to manipulate," Skellen finished the sentence, after he had himself a sneeze. "You need only 'Hurrah!' and make a speech from the senate steps promising to open the prisons and cut the taxes." "You are absolutely right, Owl," said the syllable stretcher. "Now I know why you shout so loudly for democracy.

is not only the execution and the excellence of the craft that determine the quality of a witcher's sword. As with mysterious elven or gnomish blades, whose secret has been lost, the mysterious power of a witcher's sword is bound to the hand and skill of the witcher wielding it. And, forsooth, owing to that magic's mysteries it is greatly potent against the Dark Powers.

Incredible, Geralt. After so many years? How's it possible?' 'There's a grain of truth in every fairy tale,' said the Witcher quietly. 'Love and blood. They both possess a mighty power. Wizards and learned men have been racking their brains over this for years, but they haven't arrived at anything except that—' 'That what, Geralt?' 'It has to be true love.

The world is huge," repeated the elf. "That's true, human. But you have changed this world. At first, you used force to change it. You treated it as you treat anything that falls into your hands. Now it looks as if the world has started to fit in with you. It's given way to you. It's given in." Geralt didn't reply.

Mówi Ã…Å¡wiÄ™ta KsiÄ™ga - rozwrzeszczaÅ' siÄ™ na dobre Eyck - ze wynijdzie z otchÅ'ani w??, smok obrzydÅ'y, siedem gÅ'ów i dziesi?? rogów majÄ…cy! A na grzbiecie jego zasiÄ…dzie niewiasta w purpurach i szkarÅ'atach, a puchar zÅ'oty bÄ™dzie w jej dÅ'oni, a na czole jej wypisany bÄ™dzie znak wszelkiego i ostatecznego kurewstwa! - Znam jÄ…! - ucieszyÅ' siÄ™ Jaskier. - To Cilia, ?ona wójta Sommerhaldera!

The Sword of Destiny has two edges. You are one of them. The other is... Death

Today Evil acts according to rights - because it is entitled to. It acts according to peace treaties, because it was taken into consideration when the treaties were being written...

You don't believe in it, you say. Well you're right, in a way. Only Evil and Greater Evil exist and beyond them, in the shadows, lurks True Evil. True Evil, Geralt, is something you can barely imagine, even if you believe nothing can still surprise you. And sometimes, True Evil seizes you by the throat and demands you choose between it and another, slightly lesser, Evil.

The wish, Geralt! Hurry up! What do you desire? Immortality? Riches? Fame? Power? Might? Privileges? Hurry, we haven't any time!' He was silent. 'Humanity,' she said suddenly, smiling nastily. 'I've guessed, haven't I? That's what you want, that's what you dream of! Of release, of the freedom to be who you want, not who you have to be. The djinn will fulfil that wish, Geralt. Just say it.

Oh, Stregobor, it would be great if the cruelty of rulers could be explained away by mutations or curses.

Remember,' she repeated, 'magic is Chaos, Art and Science. It is a curse, a blessing and progress. It all depends on who uses magic, how they use it, and to what purpose.

Don't you think"—he smiled—"that my lack of faith makes such a trance pointless?" "No, I don't. And do you know why?" "No." Nenneke leaned over and looked him in the eyes with a strange smile on her pale lips. "Because it would be the first proof I've ever heard of that a lack of faith has any kind of power at all.

That makes no sense. Who would want to destroy the world? Wars aren't waged to destroy. Wars are waged for two reasons. One is power and the other is money.

Kings," continued Calanthe, "divide people into two categories—those they order around, and those they buy—because they adhere to the old and banal truth that everyone can be bought. Everyone. It's only a question of price.

You took advantage of a madman's ravings to strengthen your own authority.

Women don't have a say in my house. But, just between us, don't do what you did during supper last time in front of her again." "You mean when I threw my fork at that rat?" "No. I mean when you hit it, even in the dark." "I thought it would be amusing.

Quem é que deve determiná-lo, declara-lo e administrá-lo? Quem?

the honest truth and faithful history of a world where he who shatters the skulls of others most efficiently and swells women's bellies fastest, reign

There's a grain of truth in every fairy tale," said the witcher quietly. "Love and blood. They both possess a mighty power. Wizards and learned men have been racking their brains over this for years, but they haven't arrived at anything except that—" "That what, Geralt?" "It has to be true love.

But you have changed this world. At first, you used force to change it. You treated it as anything that falls into your hands. Now it looks as it the world has started to fit in with you. It's given way to you. It's given in.

he who pays the piper calls the tune!

We're not so naïve that we don't know your merchants are just outposts of your way of life. We know what follows them.