# Quote — Jack Vance, The Star King

> You will have useful work: the destruction of evil men. What work could be more useful?

- Author: [Jack Vance](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance.md)
- Book: [The Star King](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-star-king.md)
- Page: 27
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jack_Vance#The_Star_King_(1964)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-star-king/you-will-have

## More from this book

> “Beauty comes in often to drink. A spaceman, he claims himself, but as to this I can’t be certain. I have often declared myself a great lover. All of us lie, as much or more than necessary. ‘What is truth?’ asks Pons Pilatus, in the fable, and I answer: ‘A commodity as cheap as air which we hide as if it were as precious as yewl stone.’”

p. 107 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-star-king/beauty-comes-in-often.md)

> Motto of the Institute: A little knowledge is a dangerous thing; a great deal of knowledge is disaster, which detractors of the Institute scornfully paraphrase to: Somebody else’s ignorance is bliss.

p. 83 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-star-king/motto-of-the.md)

> “Everyone is the same,” he told himself. “Anxious to arrive and, when they leave, wondering why they came.”

p. 37 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-star-king/everyone-is-the.md)