# Quote — Matt Hughes, Fool Me Twice

> Well, as I say, authority is always lawfully relinquished, but sometimes the legitimacy is acquired after the relinquishment.
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> “You mean retroactively?”
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> I mean that cause and effect are not always arranged in an ideal sequence.
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> “In other words,” Filidor translated, “not only do victors write the histories, but usurpers also rewrite the rule book to justify the illicit seizure of office.”
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> Perhaps not the most felicitous manner of putting it, but essentially correct.
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> “I am surprised the people put up with such shenanigans. They should rise up.”
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> Unwittingly, I am sure, you put your finger on the flaw in your own reasoning.
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> “How so?”
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> You said, “They should rise up,” not “We should rise up.” As long as it is a matter to be solved by others, it will not be.

- Author: [Matt Hughes](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matt-hughes.md)
- Book: [Fool Me Twice](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matt-hughes/fool-me-twice.md)
- Page: 301
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## More from this book

> She could be—he hoped would be—what he had always lacked: a center to the map of his life, that one, necessary fixed point from which he could navigate out into the world and by which he could always find his way back home again.

p. 386 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matt-hughes/fool-me-twice/she-could-be-he.md)

> The commerciants of Olkney were renowned for their egalitarian spirit, judging rich and poor alike solely by the weight of their purses.

p. 212 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matt-hughes/fool-me-twice/the-commerciants-of-olkney.md)

> “That is unfair,” said Filidor.
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> Gavne shrugged. “Things are as they are. If you quest after justice, young women are the wrong continent to explore. They run more to clemency or spite.”

p. 347 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matt-hughes/fool-me-twice/that-is-unfair.md)