# Quote — Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies

> The trouble with creating military dictators, Locke reflected, was getting rid of them after the immediate crisis was past.

- Author: [Scott Lynch](https://www.leafyquotes.com/scott-lynch.md)
- Book: [Red Seas Under Red Skies](https://www.leafyquotes.com/scott-lynch/red-seas-under-red-skies.md)
- Page: 35
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Scott_Lynch#Red_Seas_Under_Red_Skies_(2007)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/scott-lynch/red-seas-under-red-skies/the-trouble-with

## More from this book

> I don’t want you to agree with me; I want you to use your misplaced acorn of a brain before the squirrel comes looking for it again.

p. 270 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/scott-lynch/red-seas-under-red-skies/i-dont-want.md)

> “I say again, impossible.”
>
> “And I correct you again. Difficult. ‘Difficult’ and ‘impossible’ are cousins often mistaken for one another, with very little in common.”

p. 93 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/scott-lynch/red-seas-under-red-skies/i-say-again.md)

> “What’s your hand [of cards] look like?“
>
> “A parched desert...How’s yours?“
>
> “A wasteland of bitter frustration.“

p. 7 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/scott-lynch/red-seas-under-red-skies/whats-your-hand.md)