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Nothing is what it seems, boy. Expect nothing and fear nothing, here or anywhere. There’s your first lesson.

“You have heard me talk of Logres. It was the old name for this country, thousands of years ago; in the old days when the struggle between good and evil was more bitter and open than it is now. That struggle goes on all round us all the time, like two armies fighting. And sometimes one of them seems to be winning and sometimes the other, but neither has ever triumphed altogether. Nor ever will,” he added softly to himself, “for there is something of each in every man.”

Where there is no bread, there is no philosophy.

It is not in the nature of any people that it should willingly endure being ruled by another people, whether it is ruled ill or ruled well.

Rumor, I fear, is scarcely as accurate as he is rapid.

Nearly every tale that men tell of magic and witches and such is born out of foolishness and ignorance and sickness of mind—or is a way of explaining things they do not understand.

Never dismiss anyone’s value until you know him.

I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.

It is not unusual for electorates to want contradictory things, and politicians often make promises accordingly.

I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. The first of those came as a terrible shock and, like anything else that changes you forever, split my life into halves: Before and After."

Their memory was something tangible and heavy, and I would carry it with me.

Countries with high voting rates also have high levels of political knowledge.