{
  "type": "topic",
  "site": {
    "name": "Leafy Quotes",
    "language": "en",
    "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com"
  },
  "formats": "Every page has two versions with the same data: JSON (the page address + .json) and markdown (the page address + .md). Append .json or .md to any `url` in this document.",
  "name": "power",
  "slug": "power",
  "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power",
  "heading": "Quotes about power",
  "json": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power.json",
  "markdown": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power.md",
  "quotes_count": 859,
  "authors_count": 283,
  "parent": null,
  "children": [
    {
      "name": "leadership",
      "slug": "leadership",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/leadership",
      "heading": "Quotes about leadership"
    },
    {
      "name": "tyranny",
      "slug": "tyranny",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/tyranny",
      "heading": "Quotes about tyranny"
    },
    {
      "name": "totalitarianism",
      "slug": "totalitarianism",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/totalitarianism",
      "heading": "Quotes about totalitarianism"
    },
    {
      "name": "obedience",
      "slug": "obedience",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/obedience",
      "heading": "Quotes about obedience"
    }
  ],
  "quotes": [
    {
      "id": "945e2ab1-740f-48a0-84eb-6a3700bdb7dc",
      "slug": "a-just-king",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/giovanni-boccaccio/the-decameron/a-just-king",
      "text": "A just king must be the first to observe those laws that he has himself prescribed.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Giovanni Boccaccio",
        "slug": "giovanni-boccaccio",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/giovanni-boccaccio"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Decameron",
        "slug": "the-decameron",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/giovanni-boccaccio/the-decameron"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "justice",
          "slug": "justice",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/justice"
        },
        {
          "name": "law",
          "slug": "law",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/law"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Giovanni_Boccaccio#The_Decameron_(c._1350)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-26T08:10:04"
    },
    {
      "id": "55af8960-d958-457b-aa8e-763e79a715b8",
      "slug": "the-opinion-of-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-de-la-fontaine/fables/the-opinion-of-the",
      "text": "The opinion of the strongest is always the best.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Jean de La Fontaine",
        "slug": "jean-de-la-fontaine",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-de-la-fontaine"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Fables",
        "slug": "fables",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-de-la-fontaine/fables"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "strength",
          "slug": "strength",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/strength"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jean_de_La_Fontaine#Book_I",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-26T08:10:00"
    },
    {
      "id": "87b11b70-fe3b-4494-b434-3f62d1d72cb7",
      "slug": "roman-remember-by-your",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/roman-remember-by-your",
      "text": "Roman, remember by your strength to rule\n\nEarth's people—for your arts are to be these:\n\nTo pacify, to impose the rule of law,\n\nTo spare the conquered, battle down the proud.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Virgil",
        "slug": "virgil",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Aeneid",
        "slug": "the-aeneid",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "mercy",
          "slug": "mercy",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/mercy"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Virgil#Book_VI",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-26T08:09:54"
    },
    {
      "id": "c4e01900-dcfa-4bd7-9ffe-af26ae2b1a2b",
      "slug": "one-must-command",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/antoine-de-saint-exupery/the-little-prince/one-must-command",
      "text": "\"One must command from each what each can perform,\" the king went on. \"Authority is based first of all upon reason. If you command your subjects to jump into the ocean, there will be a revolution. I am entitled to command obedience because my orders are reasonable.\"\n\n\"Then my sunset?\" insisted the little prince, who never let go of a question once he had asked it.\n\n\"You shall have your sunset. I shall command it. But I shall wait, according to my science of government, until conditions are favorable.\"",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Antoine de Saint-Exupéry",
        "slug": "antoine-de-saint-exupery",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/antoine-de-saint-exupery"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Little Prince",
        "slug": "the-little-prince",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/antoine-de-saint-exupery/the-little-prince"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "reason",
          "slug": "reason",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reason"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Little_Prince#Quotes",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-26T08:09:52"
    },
    {
      "id": "bbeb17ad-ffec-474f-b146-13f20cd3977a",
      "slug": "the-almost-insoluble",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/theodor-adorno/minima-moralia/the-almost-insoluble",
      "text": "The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Theodor Adorno",
        "slug": "theodor-adorno",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/theodor-adorno"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Minima Moralia",
        "slug": "minima-moralia",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/theodor-adorno/minima-moralia"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Theodor_Adorno#Minima_Moralia_(1951)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-26T07:49:19"
    },
    {
      "id": "098bd887-1f1b-4d5a-b05c-50593a604804",
      "slug": "human-beings-betray",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/marguerite-yourcenar/memoirs-of-hadrian/human-beings-betray",
      "text": "Human beings betray their worst failings when they marvel to find that a world ruler is neither foolishly indolent, presumptuous, nor cruel.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Marguerite Yourcenar",
        "slug": "marguerite-yourcenar",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/marguerite-yourcenar"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Memoirs of Hadrian",
        "slug": "memoirs-of-hadrian",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/marguerite-yourcenar/memoirs-of-hadrian"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 103,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marguerite_Yourcenar#Memoirs_of_Hadrian_(1951)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-26T07:49:16"
    },
    {
      "id": "8da9abe8-f226-4e86-b074-b9581b1cbfbd",
      "slug": "lust-of-absolute",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tacitus/annals/lust-of-absolute",
      "text": "Lust of absolute power is more burning than all the passions.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Tacitus",
        "slug": "tacitus",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tacitus"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Annals",
        "slug": "annals",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tacitus/annals"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tacitus#Annals_(117)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-26T07:49:14"
    },
    {
      "id": "602b5233-3aaf-4f61-b895-51468aa89d88",
      "slug": "when-men-of-talents",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tacitus/annals/when-men-of-talents",
      "text": "When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Tacitus",
        "slug": "tacitus",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tacitus"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Annals",
        "slug": "annals",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tacitus/annals"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tacitus#Annals_(117)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-26T07:49:14"
    },
    {
      "id": "3d20860e-6971-4915-a312-036061fadb6a",
      "slug": "the-gods-are",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tacitus/the-histories/the-gods-are",
      "text": "The gods are on the side of the stronger.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Tacitus",
        "slug": "tacitus",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tacitus"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Histories",
        "slug": "the-histories",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tacitus/the-histories"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tacitus#Histories_(100-110)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-26T07:49:13"
    },
    {
      "id": "7f65c83b-3818-45d6-94bc-f99d594458cf",
      "slug": "men-in-great",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/francis-bacon/the-essays/men-in-great",
      "text": "Men in great place are thrice servants,—servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Francis Bacon",
        "slug": "francis-bacon",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/francis-bacon"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Essays",
        "slug": "the-essays",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/francis-bacon/the-essays"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Essays_(Francis_Bacon)#Of_Great_Place",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-26T07:02:19"
    },
    {
      "id": "52dac37f-2bc5-446f-b971-52cfae5ea159",
      "slug": "it-is-a-strange",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/francis-bacon/the-essays/it-is-a-strange",
      "text": "It is a strange desire, to seek power and to lose liberty.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Francis Bacon",
        "slug": "francis-bacon",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/francis-bacon"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Essays",
        "slug": "the-essays",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/francis-bacon/the-essays"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "freedom",
          "slug": "freedom",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Essays_(Francis_Bacon)#Of_Great_Place",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-26T07:02:19"
    },
    {
      "id": "1154a536-96f1-49c7-8b32-6297ac080ffb",
      "slug": "the-desire-of-power",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/francis-bacon/the-essays/the-desire-of-power",
      "text": "The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Francis Bacon",
        "slug": "francis-bacon",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/francis-bacon"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Essays",
        "slug": "the-essays",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/francis-bacon/the-essays"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "knowledge",
          "slug": "knowledge",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/knowledge"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Essays_(Francis_Bacon)#Of_Goodness_and_Goodness_of_Nature",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-26T07:02:19"
    },
    {
      "id": "f1e5c81d-16da-49da-857d-9837d94d388e",
      "slug": "so-true-it-is-that",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/confessions/so-true-it-is-that",
      "text": "So true it is that, in every condition of life, the strong man who is guilty saves himself at the expense of the innocent who is weak.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Jean Jacques Rousseau",
        "slug": "jean-jacques-rousseau",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Confessions",
        "slug": "confessions",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/confessions"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "justice",
          "slug": "justice",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/justice"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Confessions_(Rousseau)#Quotes",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-26T07:02:03"
    },
    {
      "id": "4bc5529f-732f-4c14-962a-7fdee8410cc5",
      "slug": "thus-the-opera",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/confessions/thus-the-opera",
      "text": "Thus the Opera kept my piece and defrauded me of the recompense for which I had surrendered my rights in it. Between the weak and the strong, this would be called robbery; between the strong and the weak, it is simply called the appropriation of what belongs to one’s neighbour.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Jean Jacques Rousseau",
        "slug": "jean-jacques-rousseau",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Confessions",
        "slug": "confessions",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/confessions"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "justice",
          "slug": "justice",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/justice"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Confessions_(Rousseau)#Quotes",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-26T07:02:03"
    },
    {
      "id": "672736f2-3ff9-4417-8f0f-0b9d7aa2c103",
      "slug": "richard-was-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-jones/henry-v/richard-was-the",
      "text": "Richard was the rightful king, but a fool. Henry’s father is a capable man, but a usurper. Sometimes it is hard to know which of these positions is worse.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Dan Jones",
        "slug": "dan-jones",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-jones"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Henry V",
        "slug": "henry-v",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-jones/henry-v"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 94,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dan_Jones_(writer)#Henry_V:_The_Astonishing_Triumph_of_England's_Greatest_Warrior_King_(2024)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:06:23"
    },
    {
      "id": "21cbacfc-7f68-4813-a6db-3a4a4fe807cf",
      "slug": "henrys-father-is-ill",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-jones/henry-v/henrys-father-is-ill",
      "text": "Henry’s father is ill, but he is not ready to die. This is a problem for the king himself. It is an even more serious problem for everyone else. A semifunctioning king is far worse for the realm than a dead one.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Dan Jones",
        "slug": "dan-jones",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-jones"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Henry V",
        "slug": "henry-v",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-jones/henry-v"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 111,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dan_Jones_(writer)#Henry_V:_The_Astonishing_Triumph_of_England's_Greatest_Warrior_King_(2024)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:06:23"
    },
    {
      "id": "55b049d5-7a51-4a64-9791-5a5221cac982",
      "slug": "the-king-was",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ian-mortimer/the-fears-of-henry-iv/the-king-was",
      "text": "The king was purposefully creating the maximum amount of fear. In Richard’s mind, the fear of his subjects equated to his own sense of power.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Ian Mortimer",
        "slug": "ian-mortimer",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ian-mortimer"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Fears of Henry IV",
        "slug": "the-fears-of-henry-iv",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ian-mortimer/the-fears-of-henry-iv"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 141,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "fear",
          "slug": "fear",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ian_Mortimer#The_Fears_of_Henry_IV:_The_Life_of_England's_Self-made_King_(2007)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:06:16"
    },
    {
      "id": "f7e408e7-52fc-45b2-9aee-3a9cbc1fb38f",
      "slug": "many-people-may",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/walter-moers/the-city-of-dreaming-books/many-people-may",
      "text": "Many people may think it is insane of someone endowed with such a potential abundance of power to spend his life producing works of art which no one can see. Well, my own ideas of morality prescribe that only a lunatic would aspire to subordinate the fate of others to his own wishes. I leave it to a higher authority to decide which view is the right one.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Walter Moers",
        "slug": "walter-moers",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/walter-moers"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The City Of Dreaming Books",
        "slug": "the-city-of-dreaming-books",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/walter-moers/the-city-of-dreaming-books"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 426,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "art",
          "slug": "art",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/art"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Walter_Moers#The_City_of_Dreaming_Books_(2004)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:06:13"
    },
    {
      "id": "40c4d4aa-82ef-41a8-8a55-66048430f334",
      "slug": "it-symbolizes-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/walter-moers/the-city-of-dreaming-books/it-symbolizes-the",
      "text": "It symbolizes the three components of power: power, power and power.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Walter Moers",
        "slug": "walter-moers",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/walter-moers"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The City Of Dreaming Books",
        "slug": "the-city-of-dreaming-books",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/walter-moers/the-city-of-dreaming-books"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 146,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "humor",
          "slug": "humor",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor"
        },
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Walter_Moers#The_City_of_Dreaming_Books_(2004)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:06:13"
    },
    {
      "id": "f9257850-dc16-4120-862e-3e4181791366",
      "slug": "in-my-position",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/walter-moers/the-city-of-dreaming-books/in-my-position",
      "text": "In my position I simply can’t afford pangs of conscience. Fortunately, they fade the more power one acquires. It’s an entirely natural process.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Walter Moers",
        "slug": "walter-moers",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/walter-moers"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The City Of Dreaming Books",
        "slug": "the-city-of-dreaming-books",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/walter-moers/the-city-of-dreaming-books"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 145,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "conscience",
          "slug": "conscience",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/conscience"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Walter_Moers#The_City_of_Dreaming_Books_(2004)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:06:12"
    },
    {
      "id": "d998d15a-9255-4a74-b8ae-31e0172f0fea",
      "slug": "i-notice-you",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/nation/i-notice-you",
      "text": "“I notice you didn’t laugh, Mr. Black!”\n\n“No, Your Majesty. We are forbidden to laugh at the things kings say, sire, because otherwise we would be at it all day.”",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Terry Pratchett",
        "slug": "terry-pratchett",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nation",
        "slug": "nation",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/nation"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 349,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "humor",
          "slug": "humor",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor"
        },
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nation_(novel)#Quotes",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:06:11"
    },
    {
      "id": "a7440921-729a-434e-b7e2-a05389f12895",
      "slug": "that-was-their",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/nation/that-was-their",
      "text": "That was their law. The strongest man led. That made sense. At least, it made sense to strong men.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Terry Pratchett",
        "slug": "terry-pratchett",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nation",
        "slug": "nation",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/nation"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 299,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "strength",
          "slug": "strength",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/strength"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nation_(novel)#Quotes",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:06:11"
    },
    {
      "id": "4e080b80-65cd-483a-b488-e7bd51e241df",
      "slug": "they-had-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/nation/they-had-the",
      "text": "They had the well-fed, important, careful look of people who took care not to be at the top. A lot of government people like them had dined at the Hall. They had learned over the years that the top was not a happy or safe place to be. One rung down, that was the place for a sensible man. You advised the king, you had a lot of power, in a quiet kind of way, and you didn’t get murdered anything like as often. And, if the ruler started to get funny ideas and it became a bit of an embarrassment, you just…took care of things.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Terry Pratchett",
        "slug": "terry-pratchett",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nation",
        "slug": "nation",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/nation"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 303,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nation_(novel)#Quotes",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:06:11"
    },
    {
      "id": "8c51f476-d0b4-4dde-8961-84de9fa5b722",
      "slug": "when-the-master",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw/back-to-methuselah/when-the-master",
      "text": "When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Bernard Shaw",
        "slug": "george-bernard-shaw",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Back to Methuselah",
        "slug": "back-to-methuselah",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw/back-to-methuselah"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "slavery",
          "slug": "slavery",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/slavery"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Back_to_Methuselah#Quotes",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:06:06"
    },
    {
      "id": "4dfac5ba-b0fb-49d8-930d-122720b682fa",
      "slug": "if-i-cared",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/r-d-blackmore/lorna-doone/if-i-cared",
      "text": "If I cared for influence—which means, for the most part, making people do one's will, without knowing it—my first step toward it would be to be called, in common parlance, “slow but sure.”",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "R. D. Blackmore",
        "slug": "r-d-blackmore",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/r-d-blackmore"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Lorna Doone",
        "slug": "lorna-doone",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/r-d-blackmore/lorna-doone"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/R._D._Blackmore#Lorna_Doone_(1869)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:06:01"
    },
    {
      "id": "75d3f64f-689e-4859-aba5-52e290a5c73c",
      "slug": "vanity-fair-vanity-fair",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-makepeace-thackeray/vanity-fair/vanity-fair-vanity-fair",
      "text": "Vanity Fair—Vanity Fair! Here was a man, who could not spell, and did not care to read—who had the habits and the cunning of a boor: whose aim in life was pettifogging: who never had a taste, or emotion, or enjoyment, but what was sordid and foul; and yet he had rank, and honours, and power, somehow: and was a dignitary of the land, and a pillar of the state. He was high sheriff, and rode in a golden coach. Great ministers and statesmen courted him; and in Vanity Fair he had a higher place than the most brilliant genius or spotless virtue.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "William Makepeace Thackeray",
        "slug": "william-makepeace-thackeray",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-makepeace-thackeray"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Vanity Fair",
        "slug": "vanity-fair",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-makepeace-thackeray/vanity-fair"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 84,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "vanity",
          "slug": "vanity",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/vanity"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Vanity_Fair_(novel)#Quotes",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:05:43"
    },
    {
      "id": "df88e68e-f479-4b42-a747-340b63d93d10",
      "slug": "evil-can-be-thought",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/m-scott-peck/the-people-of-the-lie/evil-can-be-thought",
      "text": "Evil can be thought of as the exercise of political power — that is, the imposition of one’s will upon others by overt or covert coercion in order to avoid extending oneself for the purpose of nurturing spiritual growth.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "M. Scott Peck",
        "slug": "m-scott-peck",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/m-scott-peck"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The People Of The Lie",
        "slug": "the-people-of-the-lie",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/m-scott-peck/the-people-of-the-lie"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 89,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "evil",
          "slug": "evil",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/evil"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/M._Scott_Peck#People_of_the_Lie:_The_Hope_for_Healing_Human_Evil_(1983)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:05:41"
    },
    {
      "id": "acc6415d-8cde-4733-b08f-ccacdae647bc",
      "slug": "stress-power-love",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/the-mercy-of-gods/stress-power-love",
      "text": "Stress, power, love. They didn’t change people, but they revealed people as who they were.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "James S. A. Corey",
        "slug": "james-s-a-corey",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Mercy of Gods",
        "slug": "the-mercy-of-gods",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/the-mercy-of-gods"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 331,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "love",
          "slug": "love",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love"
        },
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "character",
          "slug": "character",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/character"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_S._A._Corey#The_Mercy_of_Gods_(2024)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:05:39"
    },
    {
      "id": "04931109-bd1f-4291-959f-a2046552a859",
      "slug": "the-hardest-thing",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/persepolis-rising/the-hardest-thing",
      "text": "The hardest thing was to trust his own people to do their jobs well, but it was what he had to do. He wondered if the high consul suffered the same thing—knowing that all the critical action would be taken by others who were guided by his orders, but in conditions he could only guess at, and in places where his intervention, even if it were possible, could only muddy the waters. It was a subtle and terrible insight. The powerlessness of control.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "James S. A. Corey",
        "slug": "james-s-a-corey",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Persepolis Rising",
        "slug": "persepolis-rising",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/persepolis-rising"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 476,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "trust",
          "slug": "trust",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/trust"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_S._A._Corey#Persepolis_Rising_(2017)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:05:38"
    },
    {
      "id": "f556a090-4f20-4875-8490-b40baf5a08b5",
      "slug": "in-order-to-be-heard",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/nemesis-games/in-order-to-be-heard",
      "text": "In order to be heard by the oppressing class, one must speak as a member of it. Not only the language, but the diction. The accusation of tyranny, however well-founded in fact, is dismissed unless it is delivered in the manner that power recognizes as powerful.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "James S. A. Corey",
        "slug": "james-s-a-corey",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nemesis Games",
        "slug": "nemesis-games",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/nemesis-games"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 223,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "language",
          "slug": "language",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/language"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_S._A._Corey#Nemesis_Games_(2015)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:05:36"
    },
    {
      "id": "0198fbc3-573b-4f21-ad39-fd7cdfad228b",
      "slug": "the-hand-that",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-m-cain/mildred-pierce/the-hand-that",
      "text": "The hand that holds the money cracks the whip.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "James M. Cain",
        "slug": "james-m-cain",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-m-cain"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Mildred Pierce",
        "slug": "mildred-pierce",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-m-cain/mildred-pierce"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "money",
          "slug": "money",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/money"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_M._Cain#Mildred_Pierce_(1941)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:05:33"
    },
    {
      "id": "e09063c0-e77f-4168-a2b0-b744f1642afb",
      "slug": "we-have-reached",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lev-grossman/the-magicians/we-have-reached",
      "text": "We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Lev Grossman",
        "slug": "lev-grossman",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lev-grossman"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Magicians",
        "slug": "the-magicians",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lev-grossman/the-magicians"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 317,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lev_Grossman#The_Magicians_(2009)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:05:14"
    },
    {
      "id": "55be891d-453f-4d93-b70c-2a201c24558d",
      "slug": "it-was-so-easy",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lev-grossman/the-magicians/it-was-so-easy",
      "text": "It was so easy to ignore people when you understood how little power they really had over you.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Lev Grossman",
        "slug": "lev-grossman",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lev-grossman"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Magicians",
        "slug": "the-magicians",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lev-grossman/the-magicians"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 133,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lev_Grossman#The_Magicians_(2009)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:05:14"
    },
    {
      "id": "3d2fee8f-c2f8-4a29-b9f2-a04664b67045",
      "slug": "nobody-can-be-touched",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lev-grossman/the-magicians/nobody-can-be-touched",
      "text": "Nobody can be touched by that much power without being corrupted.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Lev Grossman",
        "slug": "lev-grossman",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lev-grossman"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Magicians",
        "slug": "the-magicians",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lev-grossman/the-magicians"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 398,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lev_Grossman#The_Magicians_(2009)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:05:14"
    },
    {
      "id": "4c6ac73f-fac2-4b9d-9931-59c58a343aa5",
      "slug": "throughout-the-history",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-l-chalker/midnight-at-the-well-of-souls/throughout-the-history",
      "text": "“Throughout the history of men there’s always been some kind of drug, and the people stuck on it. The people who push the stuff are on a different kind of drug, one so powerful that they are not aware of its own, ravaging, animalistic effect on them.”\n\n“What’s that?”\n\n“Power and greed,” he told her. “The ugliest—no, the second ugliest ravager of people ever known.”\n\n“What’s the ugliest then?” she asked him.\n\n“Fear,” he replied seriously. “It destroys, rots, and touches everyone around.”",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Jack L. Chalker",
        "slug": "jack-l-chalker",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-l-chalker"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Midnight at the Well of Souls",
        "slug": "midnight-at-the-well-of-souls",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-l-chalker/midnight-at-the-well-of-souls"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 155,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "fear",
          "slug": "fear",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear"
        },
        {
          "name": "greed",
          "slug": "greed",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/greed"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jack_L._Chalker#Midnight_at_the_Well_of_Souls_(1977)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:05:03"
    },
    {
      "id": "03c7b289-6b85-4775-a013-17c441823c26",
      "slug": "i-found-that",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-l-chalker/midnight-at-the-well-of-souls/i-found-that",
      "text": "I found that the rich whom I’d envied dreamed of greater riches, and that power came not from obeying the law but from not getting caught.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Jack L. Chalker",
        "slug": "jack-l-chalker",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-l-chalker"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Midnight at the Well of Souls",
        "slug": "midnight-at-the-well-of-souls",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-l-chalker/midnight-at-the-well-of-souls"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 312,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "wealth",
          "slug": "wealth",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/wealth"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jack_L._Chalker#Midnight_at_the_Well_of_Souls_(1977)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:05:03"
    },
    {
      "id": "d60570d1-9222-47f1-8cc7-92e1ec564fff",
      "slug": "i-had-no-doubt",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/matt-hughes/the-spiral-labyrinth/i-had-no-doubt",
      "text": "I had no doubt that there was madness here. How could it be otherwise in a cosmos that was ordered solely by will? It did not mean that the insane would automatically rise to the apex of the social order; their efforts would be diffused by the randomness of the impulses that drove them. But those whose extraordinary powers of will propelled them to the heights of power and rank would always be vulnerable to going further than they should. And there would be none but their equally mad rivals to restrain them.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Matt Hughes",
        "slug": "matt-hughes",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/matt-hughes"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Spiral Labyrinth",
        "slug": "the-spiral-labyrinth",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/matt-hughes/the-spiral-labyrinth"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 106,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "madness",
          "slug": "madness",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/madness"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Matthew_Hughes_(writer)#The_Spiral_Labyrinth_(2007)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:04:54"
    },
    {
      "id": "e984090d-ae96-4508-bbfb-52711d962023",
      "slug": "he-began-to-dream",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/matt-hughes/majestrum/he-began-to-dream",
      "text": "“He began to dream the dreams that always seduce a tyrant: powers beyond powers, worlds at his feet, whole realms bowing to his whims.”\n\n“And the dreams occluded his faculties,” I said. “It was ever thus, we may be thankful, else tyrants would never fall.”",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Matt Hughes",
        "slug": "matt-hughes",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/matt-hughes"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Majestrum",
        "slug": "majestrum",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/matt-hughes/majestrum"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 165,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "tyranny",
          "slug": "tyranny",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/tyranny"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Matthew_Hughes_(writer)#Majestrum_(2006)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:04:53"
    },
    {
      "id": "8f15e743-4cd9-4c85-8375-775859af689b",
      "slug": "conquering-a-kingdom",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/wesley-chu/the-rebirths-of-tao/conquering-a-kingdom",
      "text": "Conquering a kingdom is always the easy part. It is keeping it that is difficult.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Wesley Chu",
        "slug": "wesley-chu",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/wesley-chu"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Rebirths of Tao",
        "slug": "the-rebirths-of-tao",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/wesley-chu/the-rebirths-of-tao"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 192,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wesley_Chu#The_Rebirths_of_Tao_(2015)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:04:48"
    },
    {
      "id": "8a618634-e530-487f-82a5-c249fe81ae79",
      "slug": "do-not-separate",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/wesley-chu/the-deaths-of-tao/do-not-separate",
      "text": "Do not separate authority from responsibility.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Wesley Chu",
        "slug": "wesley-chu",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/wesley-chu"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Deaths of Tao",
        "slug": "the-deaths-of-tao",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/wesley-chu/the-deaths-of-tao"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 147,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "responsibility",
          "slug": "responsibility",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/responsibility"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wesley_Chu#The_Deaths_of_Tao_(2013)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:04:47"
    },
    {
      "id": "6311aa5f-72a7-463c-9eef-29267dc3ab26",
      "slug": "it-is-always",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/adam-hochschild/king-leopolds-ghost/it-is-always",
      "text": "It is always tempting to believe that a bad system is the fault of one bad man.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Adam Hochschild",
        "slug": "adam-hochschild",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/adam-hochschild"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "King Leopold's Ghost",
        "slug": "king-leopolds-ghost",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/adam-hochschild/king-leopolds-ghost"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "evil",
          "slug": "evil",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/evil"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Adam_Hochschild#King_Leopold's_Ghost_(1998)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:04:43"
    },
    {
      "id": "cd2af0b9-6f35-49e9-8669-519a3bf8f950",
      "slug": "without-a-standing",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-quinn/the-story-of-b/without-a-standing",
      "text": "Without a standing army, a king is just a windbag in fancy clothes.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Daniel Quinn",
        "slug": "daniel-quinn",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-quinn"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Story of B",
        "slug": "the-story-of-b",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-quinn/the-story-of-b"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 263,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "humor",
          "slug": "humor",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor"
        },
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Daniel_Quinn#The_Story_of_B_(1996)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:04:42"
    },
    {
      "id": "db7f3e08-ddeb-446b-bc12-ab272de37f59",
      "slug": "they-measure-rank",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edgar-pangborn/a-mirror-for-observers/they-measure-rank",
      "text": "They measure rank as Mussolini did, by the amount of carpet between door and desk.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Edgar Pangborn",
        "slug": "edgar-pangborn",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edgar-pangborn"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Mirror for Observers",
        "slug": "a-mirror-for-observers",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edgar-pangborn/a-mirror-for-observers"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 133,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "humor",
          "slug": "humor",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor"
        },
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edgar_Pangborn#A_Mirror_for_Observers_(1954)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:04:39"
    },
    {
      "id": "7f417e6f-fff4-4ec8-ab4e-fdbb547d35a5",
      "slug": "in-the-universe",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/paula-gunn-allen/grandmothers-of-the-light/in-the-universe",
      "text": "In the universe of power, all transactions proceed in more directions than one.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Paula Gunn Allen",
        "slug": "paula-gunn-allen",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/paula-gunn-allen"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Grandmothers of The Light",
        "slug": "grandmothers-of-the-light",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/paula-gunn-allen/grandmothers-of-the-light"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paula_Gunn_Allen#Grandmothers_of_The_Light:_A_Medicine_Woman's_Sourcebook_(1991)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:04:39"
    },
    {
      "id": "68bdecbb-d595-4bf6-b406-6e4956e569a0",
      "slug": "in-intelligent-life",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edgar-pangborn/a-mirror-for-observers/in-intelligent-life",
      "text": "In intelligent life, human or Martian, maybe there has always been a genuine division between those who honor the individuality of others and those who are driven to control and pervert it.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Edgar Pangborn",
        "slug": "edgar-pangborn",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edgar-pangborn"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Mirror for Observers",
        "slug": "a-mirror-for-observers",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edgar-pangborn/a-mirror-for-observers"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 64,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "freedom",
          "slug": "freedom",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edgar_Pangborn#A_Mirror_for_Observers_(1954)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:04:39"
    },
    {
      "id": "603da429-a0ca-4420-a988-fc1a281629fb",
      "slug": "we-live-in-a-world",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tiphanie-yanique/land-of-love-and-drowning/we-live-in-a-world",
      "text": "We live in a world where the powerful can do what they want and the rest of us just have to accept it",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Tiphanie Yanique",
        "slug": "tiphanie-yanique",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tiphanie-yanique"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Land of Love and Drowning",
        "slug": "land-of-love-and-drowning",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tiphanie-yanique/land-of-love-and-drowning"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 183,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tiphanie_Yanique#Land_of_Love_and_Drowning_(2014)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:04:39"
    },
    {
      "id": "09813d0e-ef67-4c00-8ca7-cfe92c188d29",
      "slug": "in-any-basic",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-r-stewart/earth-abides/in-any-basic",
      "text": "In any basic struggle for power, the intellectual man went under.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George R. Stewart",
        "slug": "george-r-stewart",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-r-stewart"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Earth Abides",
        "slug": "earth-abides",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-r-stewart/earth-abides"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 249,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "intelligence",
          "slug": "intelligence",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/intelligence"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_R._Stewart#Earth_Abides_(1949)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:04:35"
    },
    {
      "id": "849c2c05-0f55-4bc6-9ab6-ea476e11b0b9",
      "slug": "the-law-is-on-their",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/linda-hogan/mean-spirit/the-law-is-on-their",
      "text": "\"The law is on their side because it's their law.\" (p111)",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Linda Hogan",
        "slug": "linda-hogan",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/linda-hogan"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Mean Spirit",
        "slug": "mean-spirit",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/linda-hogan/mean-spirit"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "law",
          "slug": "law",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/law"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Linda_Hogan_(writer)#Part_One",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:04:34"
    },
    {
      "id": "8fedee7b-5fe8-4b60-b86e-c65590efd0b2",
      "slug": "all-powers-have",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer/braiding-sweetgrass/all-powers-have",
      "text": "All powers have two sides, the power to create and the power to destroy. We must recognize them both, but invest our gifts on the side of creation.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Robin Wall Kimmerer",
        "slug": "robin-wall-kimmerer",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Braiding Sweetgrass",
        "slug": "braiding-sweetgrass",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer/braiding-sweetgrass"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 212,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "creativity",
          "slug": "creativity",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/creativity"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robin_Wall_Kimmerer#Braiding_Sweetgrass_(2013)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:04:32"
    },
    {
      "id": "94dfd312-ec71-45a0-a51e-6142407650e2",
      "slug": "but-it-is-no-use",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/hilary-mantel/wolf-hall/but-it-is-no-use",
      "text": "But it is no use to justify yourself. It is no good to explain. It is weak to be anecdotal. It is wise to conceal the past even if there is nothing to conceal. A man’s power is in the half-light, in the half-seen movements of his hand and the unguessed-at expression of his face. It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Hilary Mantel",
        "slug": "hilary-mantel",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/hilary-mantel"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Wolf Hall",
        "slug": "wolf-hall",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/hilary-mantel/wolf-hall"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 331,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "secrets",
          "slug": "secrets",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/secrets"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hilary_Mantel#Wolf_Hall_(2009)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:04:20"
    },
    {
      "id": "a62e2395-3ec0-4910-8918-6ea0a9989b65",
      "slug": "a-part-of-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/hilary-mantel/wolf-hall/a-part-of-the",
      "text": "A part of the art of ruling, I suppose, is to know when to shut your ears.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Hilary Mantel",
        "slug": "hilary-mantel",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/hilary-mantel"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Wolf Hall",
        "slug": "wolf-hall",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/hilary-mantel/wolf-hall"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 179,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "listening",
          "slug": "listening",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/listening"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hilary_Mantel#Wolf_Hall_(2009)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:04:19"
    },
    {
      "id": "63d4ec19-bbc2-47ab-9122-959d5b3068fb",
      "slug": "at-the-gate",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/moving-pictures/at-the-gate",
      "text": "At the gate was a large, heavy-set man, who was eyeing the queue with the smug look of minor power-wielders everywhere. (p. 46)",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Terry Pratchett",
        "slug": "terry-pratchett",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Moving Pictures",
        "slug": "moving-pictures",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/moving-pictures"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Moving_Pictures_(novel)#Quotes",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:04:14"
    },
    {
      "id": "9658e70e-ca79-4109-9a76-69fa26a4188d",
      "slug": "its-a-fact",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/pyramids/its-a-fact",
      "text": "It's a fact as immutable as the Third Law of Sod that there is no such thing as a good Grand Vizier. A predilection to cackle and plot is apparently part of the job spec.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Terry Pratchett",
        "slug": "terry-pratchett",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Pyramids",
        "slug": "pyramids",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/pyramids"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 144,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "humor",
          "slug": "humor",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor"
        },
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pyramids_(novel)#Quotes",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:04:12"
    },
    {
      "id": "47fb100b-be9d-488e-8ceb-1a1ab0e71858",
      "slug": "when-i-was",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-okri/the-age-of-magic/when-i-was",
      "text": "\"When I was about three years old... I realised that words could move the power in a room.\"",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Ben Okri",
        "slug": "ben-okri",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-okri"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Age of Magic",
        "slug": "the-age-of-magic",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-okri/the-age-of-magic"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "words",
          "slug": "words",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/words"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ben_Okri#The_Age_of_Magic_(2014)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:04:03"
    },
    {
      "id": "c050ff74-8579-4011-8b99-4827586aa4ba",
      "slug": "size-power-numbers-since",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-tenn/the-seven-sexes/size-power-numbers-since",
      "text": "“Size, power, numbers—since the beginning of time, those three have been trying to correlate with right and wrong. So far, they haven’t succeeded.”\n\nNodding, the Ambassador murmured, “Very true. But, on the other hand, they do exceedingly well with life and death.”",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "William Tenn",
        "slug": "william-tenn",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-tenn"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Seven Sexes",
        "slug": "the-seven-sexes",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-tenn/the-seven-sexes"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 142,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "morality",
          "slug": "morality",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/morality"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Tenn#The_Seven_Sexes_(1968)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:03:58"
    },
    {
      "id": "8366d5dc-af08-40ec-bcaa-22e7c7296355",
      "slug": "another-war-is-always",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-mitchell/cloud-atlas/another-war-is-always",
      "text": "Another war is always coming, Robert. They are never properly extinguished. What sparks war? The will to power, the backbone of human nature. The threat of violence, the fear of violence, or actual violence, is the instrument of this dreadful will… The nation state is merely human nature inflated to monstrous proportions. QES, nations are entities whose laws are written by violence. Thus it ever was, so ever shall it be.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "David Mitchell",
        "slug": "david-mitchell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-mitchell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Cloud Atlas",
        "slug": "cloud-atlas",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-mitchell/cloud-atlas"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 444,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "war",
          "slug": "war",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war"
        },
        {
          "name": "violence",
          "slug": "violence",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/violence"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cloud_Atlas_(novel)#Letters_from_Zedelghem_(Part_2)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:03:57"
    },
    {
      "id": "10914609-8bb7-47a3-98b3-2c26e02f6b5b",
      "slug": "you-must-surely",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/genevieve-cogman/the-untold-story/you-must-surely",
      "text": "You must surely know by now, Winters, that a leader’s authority is limited to giving her followers orders that they will actually obey.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Genevieve Cogman",
        "slug": "genevieve-cogman",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/genevieve-cogman"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Untold Story",
        "slug": "the-untold-story",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/genevieve-cogman/the-untold-story"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 318,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "leadership",
          "slug": "leadership",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/leadership"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Genevieve_Cogman#The_Untold_Story_(2021)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:03:54"
    },
    {
      "id": "7943ca16-c19d-43e0-a8c6-926f842c0e26",
      "slug": "you-cant-trust",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/genevieve-cogman/the-mortal-word/you-cant-trust",
      "text": "You can’t trust people in power, dearie. They’ll say whatever they want, all the witnesses will be paid to agree, and then you’re behind bars till the end of your days. Or worse.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Genevieve Cogman",
        "slug": "genevieve-cogman",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/genevieve-cogman"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Mortal Word",
        "slug": "the-mortal-word",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/genevieve-cogman/the-mortal-word"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 294,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "trust",
          "slug": "trust",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/trust"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Genevieve_Cogman#The_Mortal_Word_(2018)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:03:53"
    },
    {
      "id": "c179af2e-4984-40ef-8855-4f29ad2d50fd",
      "slug": "all-power-corrupts",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-le-carre/tinker-tailor-soldier-spy/all-power-corrupts",
      "text": "“All power corrupts but some must govern and in that case Brother Lacon will reluctantly scramble to the top of the heap.”",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "John le Carré",
        "slug": "john-le-carre",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-le-carre"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy",
        "slug": "tinker-tailor-soldier-spy",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-le-carre/tinker-tailor-soldier-spy"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "corruption",
          "slug": "corruption",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/corruption"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tinker_Tailor_Soldier_Spy_(novel)#Part_Two",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:03:51"
    },
    {
      "id": "18c2c8a7-69fe-4669-a539-e5a386127880",
      "slug": "a-revolution-is-nothing",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexandre-kojeve/the-notion-of-authority/a-revolution-is-nothing",
      "text": "A Revolution is nothing other than the replacement of one given type of Authority with another.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Alexandre Kojève",
        "slug": "alexandre-kojeve",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexandre-kojeve"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Notion of Authority",
        "slug": "the-notion-of-authority",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexandre-kojeve/the-notion-of-authority"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 103,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "revolution",
          "slug": "revolution",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution"
        },
        {
          "name": "authority figures",
          "slug": "authority-figures",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/authority-figures"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alexandre_Koj%C3%A8ve#The_Notion_of_Authority_(2020)_%5B1942%5D",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:03:37"
    },
    {
      "id": "e743bcbe-40f8-41d7-a840-58fde1afaa5e",
      "slug": "the-more-power",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/the-october-man/the-more-power",
      "text": "The more power something has, the less the actual facts matter.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Ben Aaronovitch",
        "slug": "ben-aaronovitch",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The October Man",
        "slug": "the-october-man",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/the-october-man"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 184,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "truth",
          "slug": "truth",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/truth"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ben_Aaronovitch#The_October_Man_(2019)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:03:32"
    },
    {
      "id": "6c81990c-f8eb-43e0-85d3-85f50383a4a6",
      "slug": "nothing-attracts-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/lies-sleeping/nothing-attracts-the",
      "text": "Nothing attracts the powerful quite like more power.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Ben Aaronovitch",
        "slug": "ben-aaronovitch",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Lies Sleeping",
        "slug": "lies-sleeping",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-aaronovitch/lies-sleeping"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 102,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ben_Aaronovitch#Lies_Sleeping_(2018)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:03:32"
    },
    {
      "id": "c549873f-c35a-4287-89f1-65b539d2ab29",
      "slug": "this-isnt-some",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/django-wexler/the-fall-of-the-readers/this-isnt-some",
      "text": "‘‘This isn’t some stupid storybook where the underdog wins in the end. This is the real world. The strongest do what they want, and everyone else has to live with it. Or”—she glanced significantly at Isaac—“not.”",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Django Wexler",
        "slug": "django-wexler",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/django-wexler"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Fall of the Readers",
        "slug": "the-fall-of-the-readers",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/django-wexler/the-fall-of-the-readers"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 323,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "strength",
          "slug": "strength",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/strength"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Django_Wexler#The_Fall_of_the_Readers_(2017)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:03:28"
    },
    {
      "id": "9b474b2e-8372-4677-89ff-6e32c1a34439",
      "slug": "dont-tell-me-this",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/django-wexler/the-fall-of-the-readers/dont-tell-me-this",
      "text": "“Don’t tell me this is about protecting humanity,” Alice said. “None of you cares one bit about the people in the real world. This is about power, just as it always has been. You’re afraid of losing a little bit of power.”",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Django Wexler",
        "slug": "django-wexler",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/django-wexler"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Fall of the Readers",
        "slug": "the-fall-of-the-readers",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/django-wexler/the-fall-of-the-readers"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 167,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "fear",
          "slug": "fear",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Django_Wexler#The_Fall_of_the_Readers_(2017)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:03:27"
    },
    {
      "id": "d163ddba-53f2-4934-af97-cd27042b0e44",
      "slug": "law-is-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-v-hamilton/black-power/law-is-the",
      "text": "Law is the agent of those in political power; it is the product of those powerful enough to define right and wrong and to have that definition legitimized by “law.” This is not to say that “might makes right,” but it is to say that Might makes Law.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Charles V. Hamilton",
        "slug": "charles-v-hamilton",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-v-hamilton"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Black Power",
        "slug": "black-power",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-v-hamilton/black-power"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 95,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "law",
          "slug": "law",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/law"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_V._Hamilton#Chapter_Four",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:03:23"
    },
    {
      "id": "725a522b-a6ab-47a3-8f3d-abc51aa85004",
      "slug": "what-the-master",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-v-hamilton/black-power/what-the-master",
      "text": "What the master giveth, the master can take away.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Charles V. Hamilton",
        "slug": "charles-v-hamilton",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-v-hamilton"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Black Power",
        "slug": "black-power",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-v-hamilton/black-power"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 101,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "freedom",
          "slug": "freedom",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_V._Hamilton#Chapter_Four",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:03:23"
    },
    {
      "id": "0ab99d31-27cb-4db0-bc94-5e1b965c07e2",
      "slug": "the-law-became",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-v-hamilton/black-power/the-law-became",
      "text": "“The law” became a convenient tool to be used by illegal masters when black people sought to move.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Charles V. Hamilton",
        "slug": "charles-v-hamilton",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-v-hamilton"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Black Power",
        "slug": "black-power",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-v-hamilton/black-power"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 95,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "law",
          "slug": "law",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/law"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_V._Hamilton#Chapter_Four",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:03:23"
    },
    {
      "id": "2ebb2aa2-d2db-4518-9887-7decdeb5b352",
      "slug": "power-makes-people",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jim-c-hines/libriomancer/power-makes-people",
      "text": "Power makes people believe they’re invulnerable.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Jim C. Hines",
        "slug": "jim-c-hines",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jim-c-hines"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Libriomancer",
        "slug": "libriomancer",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jim-c-hines/libriomancer"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 187,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "pride",
          "slug": "pride",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/pride"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jim_C._Hines#Libriomancer_(2012)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:03:20"
    },
    {
      "id": "9681ba9e-5170-47bb-8bb0-6a3cb541bf21",
      "slug": "it-isnt-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/b-traven/the-treasure-of-the-sierra-madre/it-isnt-the",
      "text": "It isn't the gold that changes man, it is the power which gold gives to man that changes the soul of man. This power, though, is only imaginary. If not recognized by other men, it does not exist.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "B. Traven",
        "slug": "b-traven",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/b-traven"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre",
        "slug": "the-treasure-of-the-sierra-madre",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/b-traven/the-treasure-of-the-sierra-madre"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "money",
          "slug": "money",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/money"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/B._Traven#The_Treasure_of_the_Sierra_Madre_(1927)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:03:15"
    },
    {
      "id": "2a801280-5155-4dda-b6b8-8fc7f3ee27ae",
      "slug": "the-class-i-belong",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/b-traven/the-death-ship/the-class-i-belong",
      "text": "The class I belong to always has to wait and wait, stand long nights and days in long files to get a cup of coffee and a slice of bread. Everybody in the world, official or boss, takes it for granted that our sort of people have ages, of time to waste. It is different with those who have money. They can arrange everything with money. Therefore they never have to wait. We who cannot pay with cold cash have to pay with our time instead. Suppose you get sore at the official who lets you wait and wait, and you say something about the citizen’s right it won’t help you a bit. He then lets you wait ten times longer, and you never do it again. He is the king. Do not forget that. Don’t ever believe that kings were done with when the fathers of the country made a revolution.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "B. Traven",
        "slug": "b-traven",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/b-traven"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Death Ship",
        "slug": "the-death-ship",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/b-traven/the-death-ship"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 41,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "time",
          "slug": "time",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/time"
        },
        {
          "name": "social inequality",
          "slug": "social-inequality",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/social-inequality"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/B._Traven#The_Death_Ship_(1926)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:03:15"
    },
    {
      "id": "e478af81-5dab-4c97-a989-38c74babd66a",
      "slug": "power-is-for",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/eric-ambler/the-dark-frontier/power-is-for",
      "text": "Power is for the powerful. Let power fall into the hands of the weak and the rest is tyranny.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Eric Ambler",
        "slug": "eric-ambler",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/eric-ambler"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Dark Frontier",
        "slug": "the-dark-frontier",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/eric-ambler/the-dark-frontier"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eric_Ambler#The_Dark_Frontier_(1936)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:03:10"
    },
    {
      "id": "a5d5c21a-348c-4418-940b-eb4702701007",
      "slug": "i-know-now",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/laila-lalami/the-moors-account/i-know-now",
      "text": "I know now that these conquerors, like many others before them, and no doubt like others after, gave speeches not to voice the truth, but to create it. (p8)",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Laila Lalami",
        "slug": "laila-lalami",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/laila-lalami"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Moor's Account",
        "slug": "the-moors-account",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/laila-lalami/the-moors-account"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "truth",
          "slug": "truth",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/truth"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Laila_Lalami#The_Moor's_Account_(2014)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:02:56"
    },
    {
      "id": "b423d517-dd11-4e05-9477-efc3a7c9bbad",
      "slug": "i-see-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tomi-adeyemi/children-of-virtue-and-vengeance/i-see-the",
      "text": "“I see the truth now. We pretend that magic is the root of our pain when everything rotten in this kingdom begins and ends with us. There’s no helping it.” I clench my fist. “Amari proved that in Ibadan. This throne corrupts even the purest of hearts. As long as it exists, people will continue to tear this kingdom apart.”",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Tomi Adeyemi",
        "slug": "tomi-adeyemi",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tomi-adeyemi"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Children of Virtue and Vengeance",
        "slug": "children-of-virtue-and-vengeance",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tomi-adeyemi/children-of-virtue-and-vengeance"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tomi_Adeyemi#Children_of_Virtue_and_Vengeance",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:02:50"
    },
    {
      "id": "70658a25-5425-4beb-ad2c-48c1fabe7cd8",
      "slug": "all-these-years",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tomi-adeyemi/children-of-virtue-and-vengeance/all-these-years",
      "text": "All these years I thought Father was a monster, but what if ruling this kingdom forced him to act that way?",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Tomi Adeyemi",
        "slug": "tomi-adeyemi",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tomi-adeyemi"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Children of Virtue and Vengeance",
        "slug": "children-of-virtue-and-vengeance",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tomi-adeyemi/children-of-virtue-and-vengeance"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tomi_Adeyemi#Children_of_Virtue_and_Vengeance",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:02:50"
    },
    {
      "id": "f837e06f-47d1-42b5-a145-e45649f55d74",
      "slug": "built-into-any",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michel-rolph-trouillot/silencing-the-past/built-into-any",
      "text": "Built into any system of domination is the tendency to proclaim its own normalcy. To acknowledge resistance as a mass phenomenon is to acknowledge the possibility that something is wrong with the system.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Michel-Rolph Trouillot",
        "slug": "michel-rolph-trouillot",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michel-rolph-trouillot"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Silencing the Past",
        "slug": "silencing-the-past",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michel-rolph-trouillot/silencing-the-past"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 84,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michel-Rolph_Trouillot#Silencing_the_Past:_Power_and_the_Production_of_History_(1995)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:02:37"
    },
    {
      "id": "eb117e02-e831-4324-b4d9-b3d0651fc806",
      "slug": "i-had-discerned",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tara-westover/educated/i-had-discerned",
      "text": "I had discerned the ways in which we had been sculpted by a tradition given to us by others, a tradition of which we were either willfully or accidentally ignorant. I had begun to understand that we had lent our voices to a discourse whose sole purpose was to dehumanize and brutalize others—because nurturing that discourse was easier, because retaining power always feels like the way forward.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Tara Westover",
        "slug": "tara-westover",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tara-westover"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Educated",
        "slug": "educated",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tara-westover/educated"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 180,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "tradition",
          "slug": "tradition",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/tradition"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tara_Westover#Educated_(2018)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:02:37"
    },
    {
      "id": "bac6ae9f-8479-435a-ba43-c462a219c3a1",
      "slug": "history-is-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michel-rolph-trouillot/silencing-the-past/history-is-the",
      "text": "History is the fruit of power, but power itself is never so transparent that its analysis becomes superfluous. The ultimate mark of power may be its invisibility; the ultimate challenge, the exposition of its roots.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Michel-Rolph Trouillot",
        "slug": "michel-rolph-trouillot",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michel-rolph-trouillot"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Silencing the Past",
        "slug": "silencing-the-past",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michel-rolph-trouillot/silencing-the-past"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "history",
          "slug": "history",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/history"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michel-Rolph_Trouillot#Silencing_the_Past:_Power_and_the_Production_of_History_(1995)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:02:37"
    },
    {
      "id": "de1ee600-a612-4ede-a720-fc404439313d",
      "slug": "the-same-thing",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-sheffield/aftermath/the-same-thing",
      "text": "The same thing happens to every President. People tell a chief executive what they think he wants to hear. Rosy economic reports, high popularity figures, promising international changes, you name it. There’s a competition to be the first with good news. Anyone who tells bad news tends to get weeded out—even if all the real news is bad.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Charles Sheffield",
        "slug": "charles-sheffield",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-sheffield"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Aftermath",
        "slug": "aftermath",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-sheffield/aftermath"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 201,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "truth",
          "slug": "truth",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/truth"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Sheffield#Aftermath_(1998)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:02:35"
    },
    {
      "id": "5801b27f-0b83-4ce4-87f9-c466acf357f2",
      "slug": "who-should-run",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-sheffield/brother-to-dragons/who-should-run",
      "text": "Who should run the world? There’s no easy answer, no magic solution. There never is, to a really hard question.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Charles Sheffield",
        "slug": "charles-sheffield",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-sheffield"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Brother to Dragons",
        "slug": "brother-to-dragons",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-sheffield/brother-to-dragons"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 260,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Sheffield#Brother_to_Dragons_(1992)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:02:34"
    },
    {
      "id": "d039b941-a8c7-44ed-8a19-dcd40b45eadb",
      "slug": "sometimes-wealth-and",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-sheffield/proteus-in-the-underworld/sometimes-wealth-and",
      "text": "Sometimes wealth and power merely created the desire for more of the same.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Charles Sheffield",
        "slug": "charles-sheffield",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-sheffield"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Proteus in the Underworld",
        "slug": "proteus-in-the-underworld",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-sheffield/proteus-in-the-underworld"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 217,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "wealth",
          "slug": "wealth",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/wealth"
        },
        {
          "name": "greed",
          "slug": "greed",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/greed"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Sheffield#Proteus_In_The_Underworld_(1995)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:02:32"
    },
    {
      "id": "c09824ec-c891-4021-a0a1-a9b9f5e85482",
      "slug": "in-the-land",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/steve-perry/the-ramal-extraction/in-the-land",
      "text": "In the land of the unarmed, the man with a rock was king.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Steve Perry",
        "slug": "steve-perry",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/steve-perry"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Ramal Extraction",
        "slug": "the-ramal-extraction",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/steve-perry/the-ramal-extraction"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "humor",
          "slug": "humor",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor"
        },
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Steve_Perry_(author)#The_Ramal_Extraction_(2012)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:02:28"
    },
    {
      "id": "6b4dcac0-44b4-4090-bb57-2462ce425696",
      "slug": "agon-wondered-what",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/brent-weeks/the-way-of-shadows/agon-wondered-what",
      "text": "Agon wondered what god Cenaria had offended to deserve such a king.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Brent Weeks",
        "slug": "brent-weeks",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/brent-weeks"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Way Of Shadows",
        "slug": "the-way-of-shadows",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/brent-weeks/the-way-of-shadows"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 158,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "humor",
          "slug": "humor",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor"
        },
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Brent_Weeks#The_Way_of_Shadows_(2008)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:02:27"
    },
    {
      "id": "39b4c3a8-c892-4db6-b457-3257f765d6f5",
      "slug": "it-may-be-beyond",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/brent-weeks/the-way-of-shadows/it-may-be-beyond",
      "text": "It may be beyond your comprehension, but I can hold power without using it.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Brent Weeks",
        "slug": "brent-weeks",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/brent-weeks"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Way Of Shadows",
        "slug": "the-way-of-shadows",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/brent-weeks/the-way-of-shadows"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 130,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Brent_Weeks#The_Way_of_Shadows_(2008)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:02:27"
    },
    {
      "id": "85ad7802-aa3b-4f07-9b56-f7ac99fc59cb",
      "slug": "you-know-she",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/walter-tevis/mockingbird/you-know-she",
      "text": "“You know,” she said, “they teach you that robots are made to serve humans. But the way they say that word ‘serve’ it sounds like ‘control.’ My father—Simon—called it ‘politician talk.’”",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Walter Tevis",
        "slug": "walter-tevis",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/walter-tevis"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Mockingbird",
        "slug": "mockingbird",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/walter-tevis/mockingbird"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 49,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "manipulation",
          "slug": "manipulation",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/manipulation"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Walter_Tevis#Mockingbird_(1980)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:02:26"
    },
    {
      "id": "325195fc-532c-4de2-83f0-e349dc78dbfd",
      "slug": "whatever-jesus-was",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/walter-tevis/mockingbird/whatever-jesus-was",
      "text": "Whatever Jesus was, he was a thing called a “great man.” I am not certain I like the idea of “great men”; it makes me uncomfortable. “Great men” often have had very bloody plans for mankind.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Walter Tevis",
        "slug": "walter-tevis",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/walter-tevis"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Mockingbird",
        "slug": "mockingbird",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/walter-tevis/mockingbird"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 143,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "violence",
          "slug": "violence",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/violence"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Walter_Tevis#Mockingbird_(1980)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:02:26"
    },
    {
      "id": "36407a49-d4a4-49a2-bb22-8b33f299c0c8",
      "slug": "when-you-come",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-bellamy/looking-backward/when-you-come",
      "text": "When you come to analyze the love of money which was the general impulse to effort in your day, you find that the dread of want and desire of luxury was but one of several motives which the pursuit of money represented; the others, and with many the more influential, being desire of power, of social position, and reputation for ability and success.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Edward Bellamy",
        "slug": "edward-bellamy",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-bellamy"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Looking Backward",
        "slug": "looking-backward",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-bellamy/looking-backward"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "money",
          "slug": "money",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/money"
        },
        {
          "name": "ambition",
          "slug": "ambition",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/ambition"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Looking_Backward:_2000%E2%80%931887#Quotes",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:02:24"
    },
    {
      "id": "47631eed-b0e8-4ecb-97a0-60f91959f3ed",
      "slug": "it-was-obvious",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nnedi-okorafor/noor/it-was-obvious",
      "text": "It was obvious who the Elders were. Important-looking men wearing important clothes being looked at by everyone else because they were important.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Nnedi Okorafor",
        "slug": "nnedi-okorafor",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nnedi-okorafor"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Noor",
        "slug": "noor",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nnedi-okorafor/noor"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 178,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "humor",
          "slug": "humor",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor"
        },
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "appearances",
          "slug": "appearances",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/appearances"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nnedi_Okorafor#Noor_(2021)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:02:16"
    },
    {
      "id": "f42a38a5-c454-4c63-ae16-a4d3ec605b31",
      "slug": "ellie-knew-how",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-marrs/the-one/ellie-knew-how",
      "text": "Ellie knew how easy it was for someone with money to smother someone without it.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "John Marrs",
        "slug": "john-marrs",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-marrs"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The One",
        "slug": "the-one",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-marrs/the-one"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 225,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "money",
          "slug": "money",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/money"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Marrs#The_One_(2017)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:02:11"
    },
    {
      "id": "e08b1c83-3092-429e-8c71-a8efe4132bf2",
      "slug": "a-general-will",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-reeman/for-my-countrys-freedom/a-general-will",
      "text": "‘A general will say, \"Order the 87th to advance.\" And if they are not enough or are hacked down, he will send in another regiment. He sees no faces, hears no pitiful cries which will never be answered, only flags, pins on maps.’",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Douglas Reeman",
        "slug": "douglas-reeman",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-reeman"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "For My Country's Freedom",
        "slug": "for-my-countrys-freedom",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-reeman/for-my-countrys-freedom"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "war",
          "slug": "war",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war"
        },
        {
          "name": "indifference",
          "slug": "indifference",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/indifference"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Douglas_Reeman#Cap_15_%22Trick_for_Trick%22",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:02:01"
    },
    {
      "id": "cf3f9d66-416d-4416-b10e-552720a48bcb",
      "slug": "that-was-probably",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/shamini-flint/inspector-singh-investigates-a-curious-indian-cadaver/that-was-probably",
      "text": "That was probably the most truthful thing that Tanvir had said to him yet. Wherever one was in the world, it seemed that it was difficult to bring the rich and powerful to book. It was enough to turn anyone into a communist – as long as it didn’t mean he had to share his cigarettes and beer.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Shamini Flint",
        "slug": "shamini-flint",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/shamini-flint"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Inspector Singh Investigates: A Curious Indian Cadaver",
        "slug": "inspector-singh-investigates-a-curious-indian-cadaver",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/shamini-flint/inspector-singh-investigates-a-curious-indian-cadaver"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "justice",
          "slug": "justice",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/justice"
        },
        {
          "name": "wealth",
          "slug": "wealth",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/wealth"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Shamini_Flint#Cap_10",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:01:57"
    },
    {
      "id": "f99c1e08-21e4-4272-9eff-1d6c8d8b53d8",
      "slug": "the-lieutenant-took",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-simmons/hyperion/the-lieutenant-took",
      "text": "The lieutenant took his time scanning their visa chips, letting them wait in the drizzle, occasionally making a comment with the idle arrogance common to such nobodies who have just come into a small bit of power.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Dan Simmons",
        "slug": "dan-simmons",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-simmons"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Hyperion",
        "slug": "hyperion",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-simmons/hyperion"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 105,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "arrogance",
          "slug": "arrogance",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/arrogance"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dan_Simmons#Hyperion_(1989)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:01:52"
    },
    {
      "id": "9bbfe2f5-f888-4e35-815b-f5901c95dbb9",
      "slug": "a-minister-can",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-trollope/phineas-redux/a-minister-can",
      "text": "A Minister can always give a reason; and, if he be clever, he can generally when doing so punish the man who asks for it. The punishing of an influential enemy is an indiscretion; but an obscure questioner may often be crushed with good effect.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Anthony Trollope",
        "slug": "anthony-trollope",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-trollope"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Phineas Redux",
        "slug": "phineas-redux",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-trollope/phineas-redux"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Phineas_Redux#Quotes",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:01:49"
    },
    {
      "id": "4e40eb29-21b8-4e63-aa7c-66ed2d2cc084",
      "slug": "rights-and-rules",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-trollope/phineas-redux/rights-and-rules",
      "text": "Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Anthony Trollope",
        "slug": "anthony-trollope",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-trollope"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Phineas Redux",
        "slug": "phineas-redux",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-trollope/phineas-redux"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "law",
          "slug": "law",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/law"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Phineas_Redux#Quotes",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:01:49"
    },
    {
      "id": "447fb3e9-0d3f-44c7-81d3-0289d0bedfa6",
      "slug": "any-one-prominent",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-trollope/phineas-redux/any-one-prominent",
      "text": "Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Anthony Trollope",
        "slug": "anthony-trollope",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-trollope"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Phineas Redux",
        "slug": "phineas-redux",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-trollope/phineas-redux"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "hypocrisy",
          "slug": "hypocrisy",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hypocrisy"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Phineas_Redux#Quotes",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:01:49"
    },
    {
      "id": "0988945e-c72a-46a8-bc12-5eec95c9264e",
      "slug": "he-has-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-trollope/phineas-redux/he-has-the",
      "text": "He has the power of making the world believe him simply because he has been rich and a duke.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Anthony Trollope",
        "slug": "anthony-trollope",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-trollope"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Phineas Redux",
        "slug": "phineas-redux",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-trollope/phineas-redux"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "wealth",
          "slug": "wealth",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/wealth"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Phineas_Redux#Quotes",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:01:49"
    },
    {
      "id": "e3b9734f-dc0f-40e0-8dc5-d22aaa8b5200",
      "slug": "ambition-is-often-and",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jordan-b-peterson/beyond-order/ambition-is-often-and",
      "text": "Ambition is often—and often purposefully—misidentified with the desire for power, and damned with faint praise, and denigrated, and punished. And ambition is sometimes exactly that wish for undue influence on others. But there is a crucial difference between sometimes and always. Authority is not mere power, and it is extremely unhelpful, even dangerous, to confuse the two. When people exert power over others, they compel them, forcefully. They apply the threat of privation or punishment so their subordinates have little choice but to act in a manner contrary to their personal needs, desires, and values. When people wield authority, by contrast, they do so because of their competence—a competence that is spontaneously recognized and appreciated by others, and generally followed willingly, with a certain relief, and with the sense that justice is being served.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Jordan B. Peterson",
        "slug": "jordan-b-peterson",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jordan-b-peterson"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Beyond Order",
        "slug": "beyond-order",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jordan-b-peterson/beyond-order"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 26,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "ambition",
          "slug": "ambition",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/ambition"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jordan_Peterson#Beyond_Order_(2021)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:01:41"
    },
    {
      "id": "3f20a33d-af89-48d1-9a14-050670b12eca",
      "slug": "the-mistake-is-to-assume",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/timothy-snyder/on-tyranny/the-mistake-is-to-assume",
      "text": "The mistake is to assume that rulers who came to power through institutions cannot change or destroy those very institutions...",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Timothy Snyder",
        "slug": "timothy-snyder",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/timothy-snyder"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "On Tyranny",
        "slug": "on-tyranny",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/timothy-snyder/on-tyranny"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Timothy_D._Snyder#On_Tyranny_(2017)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:01:40"
    },
    {
      "id": "51ca1233-e80f-486e-a971-eb307704fd9e",
      "slug": "when-power-is-gone",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/guy-gavriel-kay/tigana/when-power-is-gone",
      "text": "When power is gone the memory of power lingers.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Guy Gavriel Kay",
        "slug": "guy-gavriel-kay",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/guy-gavriel-kay"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Tigana",
        "slug": "tigana",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/guy-gavriel-kay/tigana"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 9,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "memory",
          "slug": "memory",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/memory"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Guy_Gavriel_Kay#Tigana_(1990)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:01:09"
    },
    {
      "id": "a9c1fae0-6b00-4461-ba21-a7d123c75bc6",
      "slug": "i-was-stunned",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-finney/time-and-again/i-was-stunned",
      "text": "I was stunned. I was, and I knew it, an ordinary person who long after he was grown retained the childhood assumption that the people who largely control our lives are somehow better informed than, and have judgment superior to, the rest of us; that they are more intelligent. Not until Vietnam did I finally realize that some of the most important decision of all time can be made by men knowing really no more than, and who are not more intelligent than, most of the rest of us. That it was even possible that my own opinions and judgment could be as good as and maybe better than a politician’s who made a decision of profound consequence.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Jack Finney",
        "slug": "jack-finney",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-finney"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Time And Again",
        "slug": "time-and-again",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-finney/time-and-again"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 387,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jack_Finney#Time_and_Again_(1970)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:01:06"
    },
    {
      "id": "fd06c8f1-7531-407f-9c31-0cf888fb7fd8",
      "slug": "lies-are-rust",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/pierce-brown/golden-son/lies-are-rust",
      "text": "\"Lies are rust on iron. A blemish on power.\"",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Pierce Brown",
        "slug": "pierce-brown",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/pierce-brown"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Golden Son",
        "slug": "golden-son",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/pierce-brown/golden-son"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "lies",
          "slug": "lies",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/lies"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pierce_Brown#Golden_Son_(2015)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:00:59"
    },
    {
      "id": "204571d6-18cc-45e2-a9b9-6322896a4a17",
      "slug": "these-peerless-thump",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/pierce-brown/golden-son/these-peerless-thump",
      "text": "These Peerless thump their chests in salute to me. The monsters. They go with the wind, chasing power. But they don't realize power doesn't shift. Power is resolute. It is the mountain, not the wind. To shift so easily is to lose trust. And trust is what has kept me alive. Trust in my friends, and their trust in me.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Pierce Brown",
        "slug": "pierce-brown",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/pierce-brown"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Golden Son",
        "slug": "golden-son",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/pierce-brown/golden-son"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "trust",
          "slug": "trust",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/trust"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pierce_Brown#Golden_Son_(2015)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:00:59"
    },
    {
      "id": "24d443b2-64c8-48f6-870a-236abfd10eff",
      "slug": "as-a-means",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/naomi-klein/the-shock-doctrine/as-a-means",
      "text": "As a means of extracting information during interrogations, torture is notoriously unreliable, but as a means of terrorizing and controlling populations, nothing is quite as effective. (p126)",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Naomi Klein",
        "slug": "naomi-klein",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/naomi-klein"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Shock Doctrine",
        "slug": "the-shock-doctrine",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/naomi-klein/the-shock-doctrine"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "fear",
          "slug": "fear",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear"
        },
        {
          "name": "torture",
          "slug": "torture",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/torture"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Naomi_Klein#The_Shock_Doctrine:_The_Rise_of_Disaster_Capitalism_(2007)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:00:49"
    },
    {
      "id": "dc2b9741-04d9-4be2-a518-2c61b5aeec10",
      "slug": "autocratic-governments-are",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/on-the-steel-breeze/autocratic-governments-are",
      "text": "Autocratic governments are masters of self-contradiction. They say one thing, do another.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Alastair Reynolds",
        "slug": "alastair-reynolds",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "On the Steel Breeze",
        "slug": "on-the-steel-breeze",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/on-the-steel-breeze"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 253,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "hypocrisy",
          "slug": "hypocrisy",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hypocrisy"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alastair_Reynolds#On_the_Steel_Breeze_(2013)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:00:42"
    },
    {
      "id": "b4a2c091-a8e2-4d17-ac10-9976bb4f7a33",
      "slug": "im-fed-up-with",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/absolution-gap/im-fed-up-with",
      "text": "I’m fed up with everyone being lied to just because the administration thinks it’s in our best interests not to know all the facts.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Alastair Reynolds",
        "slug": "alastair-reynolds",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Absolution Gap",
        "slug": "absolution-gap",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/absolution-gap"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 378,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "truth",
          "slug": "truth",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/truth"
        },
        {
          "name": "lies",
          "slug": "lies",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/lies"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alastair_Reynolds#Absolution_Gap_(2003)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:00:39"
    },
    {
      "id": "d5880a83-a3db-47d2-8b1f-b6952b56493d",
      "slug": "the-communist-state",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tony-judt/postwar/the-communist-state",
      "text": "The Communist state was in a permanent condition of undeclared war against its own citizens. Like Lenin, Stalin understood the need for enemies, and it was in the logic of the Stalinist state that it was constantly mobilizing against its foes—external, but above all domestic.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Tony Judt",
        "slug": "tony-judt",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tony-judt"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Postwar",
        "slug": "postwar",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tony-judt/postwar"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "totalitarianism",
          "slug": "totalitarianism",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/totalitarianism"
        },
        {
          "name": "communism",
          "slug": "communism",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/communism"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tony_Judt#Postwar:_A_History_of_Europe_Since_1945_(2005)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:00:30"
    },
    {
      "id": "980cd59f-2d15-470f-b453-b0eccd289ba1",
      "slug": "there-is-only",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alan-paton/cry-the-beloved-country/there-is-only",
      "text": "...there is only one thing that has power completely, and this is love. Because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Alan Paton",
        "slug": "alan-paton",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alan-paton"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Cry, The Beloved Country",
        "slug": "cry-the-beloved-country",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alan-paton/cry-the-beloved-country"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "love",
          "slug": "love",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love"
        },
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alan_Paton#Cry,_the_Beloved_Country,_(1948)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:00:29"
    },
    {
      "id": "fe9b7206-5994-401f-91c8-37187bafd13c",
      "slug": "trouble-rather-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/gordon-r-dickson/tactics-of-mistake/trouble-rather-the",
      "text": "Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage amongst his books. For to you Kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned by the flicking of a finger...",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Gordon R. Dickson",
        "slug": "gordon-r-dickson",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/gordon-r-dickson"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Tactics of Mistake",
        "slug": "tactics-of-mistake",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/gordon-r-dickson/tactics-of-mistake"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 153,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "knowledge",
          "slug": "knowledge",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/knowledge"
        },
        {
          "name": "wisdom",
          "slug": "wisdom",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/wisdom"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gordon_R._Dickson#Tactics_of_Mistake_(1971)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:00:28"
    },
    {
      "id": "94f4fe1c-c15e-4d55-b887-c9dca64aa458",
      "slug": "men-are-excessively",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/paul-johnson/modern-times/men-are-excessively",
      "text": "Men are excessively ruthless and cruel not as a rule out of malice but from outraged righteousness. How much more is this true of legally constituted states, invested with all this seeming moral authority of parliaments and congresses and courts of justice! The destructive capacity of an individual, however vicious, is small; of the state, however well-intentioned, almost limitless. Expand the state and the destructive capacity necessarily expands too. Collective righteousness is far more ungovernable than any individual pursuit of revenge. That was a point well understood by Woodrow Wilson, who warned: 'Once lead this people into war and they'll forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Paul Johnson",
        "slug": "paul-johnson",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/paul-johnson"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Modern Times",
        "slug": "modern-times",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/paul-johnson/modern-times"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "cruelty",
          "slug": "cruelty",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cruelty"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paul_Johnson#Modern_Times:_A_History_of_the_World_from_the_1920s_to_the_1980s_(1983)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:00:28"
    },
    {
      "id": "19bba850-c539-4be9-9dbf-dd87851ed420",
      "slug": "a-stalin-functionary",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/paul-johnson/modern-times/a-stalin-functionary",
      "text": "A Stalin functionary admitted, \"Innocent people were arrested: naturally - otherwise no one would be frightened. If people, he said, were arrested only for specific misdemeanours, all the others would feel safe and so become ripe for treason.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Paul Johnson",
        "slug": "paul-johnson",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/paul-johnson"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Modern Times",
        "slug": "modern-times",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/paul-johnson/modern-times"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "fear",
          "slug": "fear",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paul_Johnson#Modern_Times:_A_History_of_the_World_from_the_1920s_to_the_1980s_(1983)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:00:28"
    },
    {
      "id": "e63fa5f0-2e2f-4098-b6bf-84af91ec6ca2",
      "slug": "the-deeds-of-conquest",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/deliriums-mistress/the-deeds-of-conquest",
      "text": "The deeds of conquest and omnipotence have a sameness, as does the exposition of most evil.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Tanith Lee",
        "slug": "tanith-lee",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Delirium’s Mistress",
        "slug": "deliriums-mistress",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/deliriums-mistress"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 165,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "evil",
          "slug": "evil",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/evil"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tanith_Lee#Delirium's_Mistress_(1986)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:00:23"
    },
    {
      "id": "8bf51e68-f3b2-4ee7-ba82-c340d01800d1",
      "slug": "power-is-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/quest-for-the-white-witch/power-is-the",
      "text": "Power is the wine after which all other wine is mud.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Tanith Lee",
        "slug": "tanith-lee",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Quest for the White Witch",
        "slug": "quest-for-the-white-witch",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/quest-for-the-white-witch"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 19,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tanith_Lee#Quest_for_the_White_Witch_(1978)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:00:21"
    },
    {
      "id": "3023a62b-1047-4409-b4f1-6e7206b7a717",
      "slug": "like-most-loners",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/drinking-sapphire-wine/like-most-loners",
      "text": "“Like most loners,” said Moddik, “you carry the seeds of violent authority. Loners need to be bossy. They quickly learn it’s the only method they have of shoving people off their backs.”",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Tanith Lee",
        "slug": "tanith-lee",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Drinking Sapphire Wine",
        "slug": "drinking-sapphire-wine",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/drinking-sapphire-wine"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 137,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "loneliness",
          "slug": "loneliness",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/loneliness"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tanith_Lee#Drinking_Sapphire_Wine_(1977)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:00:19"
    },
    {
      "id": "65a80642-b069-4b54-b9ab-a52c9c32f341",
      "slug": "aristocracy-is-not",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/g-chesterton/orthodoxy/aristocracy-is-not",
      "text": "Aristocracy is not an institution: aristocracy is a sin; generally a very venial one. It is merely the drift or slide of men into a sort of natural pomposity and praise of the powerful, which is the most easy and obvious affair in the world.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "G. Chesterton",
        "slug": "g-chesterton",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/g-chesterton"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Orthodoxy",
        "slug": "orthodoxy",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/g-chesterton/orthodoxy"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "pride",
          "slug": "pride",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/pride"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Orthodoxy_(book)#Chapter_VII._%22The_Eternal_Revolution%22",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:00:14"
    },
    {
      "id": "09be11f3-15aa-4012-aa3c-c2bd2fecc918",
      "slug": "it-is-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/g-chesterton/orthodoxy/it-is-the",
      "text": "It is the custom in passing romance and journalism to talk of men suffering under old tyrannies. But, as a fact, men have almost always suffered under new tyrannies; under tyrannies that had been public liberties hardly twenty years before. Thus England went mad with joy over the patriotic monarchy of Elizabeth; and then (almost immediately afterwards) went mad with rage in the trap of the tyranny of Charles the First. So, again, in France the monarchy became intolerable, not just after it had been tolerated, but just after it had been adored. The son of Louis the well-beloved was Louis the guillotined. So in the same way in England in the nineteenth century the Radical manufacturer was entirely trusted as a mere tribune of the people, until suddenly we heard the cry of the Socialist that he was a tyrant eating the people like bread. So again, we have almost up to the last instant trusted the newspapers as organs of public opinion. Just recently some of us have seen (not slowly, but with a start) that they are obviously nothing of the kind. They are, by the nature of the case, the hobbies of a few rich men. We have not any need to rebel against antiquity; we have to rebel against novelty. It is the new rulers, the capitalist or the editor, who really hold up the modern world. There is no fear that a modern king will attempt to override the constitution; it is more likely that he will ignore the constitution and work behind its back; he will take no advantage of his kingly power; it is more likely that he will take advantage of his kingly powerlessness, of the fact that he is free from criticism and publicity. For the king is the most private person of our time. It will not be necessary for any one to fight again against the proposal of a censorship of the press. We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "G. Chesterton",
        "slug": "g-chesterton",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/g-chesterton"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Orthodoxy",
        "slug": "orthodoxy",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/g-chesterton/orthodoxy"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Orthodoxy_(book)#Chapter_VII._%22The_Eternal_Revolution%22",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:00:14"
    },
    {
      "id": "64d323e0-5a62-4520-b4d1-70037deff961",
      "slug": "we-have-a-saying",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ann-leckie/ancillary-justice/we-have-a-saying",
      "text": "We have a saying where I come from: Power requires neither permission nor forgiveness.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Ann Leckie",
        "slug": "ann-leckie",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ann-leckie"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Ancillary Justice",
        "slug": "ancillary-justice",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ann-leckie/ancillary-justice"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 299,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ann_Leckie#Ancillary_Justice_(2013)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:00:08"
    },
    {
      "id": "096f1871-b79d-4f3c-a3a1-51b03f95a870",
      "slug": "modern-authority-is-based",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-twelve-hawks/spark/modern-authority-is-based",
      "text": "Modern authority is based on a system of lies that are accepted by the general population. If you pull away the curtain and show the reality of power, people are motivated to question the fictions that govern their own lives.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "John Twelve Hawks",
        "slug": "john-twelve-hawks",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-twelve-hawks"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Spark",
        "slug": "spark",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-twelve-hawks/spark"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "lies",
          "slug": "lies",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/lies"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Twelve_Hawks#Spark_(2014)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:00:00"
    },
    {
      "id": "831b04ab-dbd1-4b2b-9e71-864a6277b7c6",
      "slug": "you-dont-need",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-twelve-hawks/the-traveler/you-dont-need",
      "text": "You don't need to watch everyone if everyone believes they're being watched.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "John Twelve Hawks",
        "slug": "john-twelve-hawks",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-twelve-hawks"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Traveler",
        "slug": "the-traveler",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-twelve-hawks/the-traveler"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Twelve_Hawks#The_Traveler_(2005)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:59:59"
    },
    {
      "id": "3cd182d3-9852-420b-863f-51b3bff3e0e2",
      "slug": "there-was-no-need",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-twelve-hawks/the-traveler/there-was-no-need",
      "text": "There was no need to worry about religion or philosophy; the truth was determined by whoever was in power.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "John Twelve Hawks",
        "slug": "john-twelve-hawks",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-twelve-hawks"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Traveler",
        "slug": "the-traveler",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-twelve-hawks/the-traveler"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "truth",
          "slug": "truth",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/truth"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Twelve_Hawks#The_Traveler_(2005)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:59:59"
    },
    {
      "id": "8d501865-c1c5-4ea2-985f-2bf45436c5ce",
      "slug": "it-is-true",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/blaise-pascal/pensees/it-is-true",
      "text": "It is true that there must be inequality among men; but if this be conceded, the door is opened not only to the highest power, but to the highest tyranny.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Blaise Pascal",
        "slug": "blaise-pascal",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/blaise-pascal"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Pensees",
        "slug": "pensees",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/blaise-pascal/pensees"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pens%C3%A9es#Section_VI:_The_Philosophers_(339-424)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:59:49"
    },
    {
      "id": "4af872eb-9fc4-497f-bfb2-7c91191fad4f",
      "slug": "justice-without-might",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/blaise-pascal/pensees/justice-without-might",
      "text": "Justice without might is helpless; might without justice is tyrannical.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Blaise Pascal",
        "slug": "blaise-pascal",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/blaise-pascal"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Pensees",
        "slug": "pensees",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/blaise-pascal/pensees"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "justice",
          "slug": "justice",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/justice"
        },
        {
          "name": "strength",
          "slug": "strength",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/strength"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pens%C3%A9es#Section_V:_Justice_and_the_Reason_of_Effects_(291-338)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:59:49"
    },
    {
      "id": "4c4f06ce-1c43-43dc-a9b3-af5d5a545dc1",
      "slug": "kings-are-surrounded",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/blaise-pascal/pensees/kings-are-surrounded",
      "text": "...kings are surrounded with persons who are wonderfully attentive in taking care that the king be not alone and in a state to think of himself, knowing well that he will be miserable, king though he be, if he meditate on self.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Blaise Pascal",
        "slug": "blaise-pascal",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/blaise-pascal"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Pensees",
        "slug": "pensees",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/blaise-pascal/pensees"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "loneliness",
          "slug": "loneliness",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/loneliness"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pens%C3%A9es#Section_II:_The_Misery_of_Man_without_God_(60-183)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:59:48"
    },
    {
      "id": "9cca4448-2fda-478b-9641-083f0ed88ae0",
      "slug": "what-is-it",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/blaise-pascal/pensees/what-is-it",
      "text": "What is it to be superintendent, chancellor, first president, but to be in a condition wherein from early morning a large number of people come from all quarters to see them, so as not to leave them an hour in the day in which they can think of themselves? And when they are in disgrace and sent back to their country houses, where they lack neither wealth nor servants to help them on occasion, they do not fail to be wretched and desolate, because no one prevents them from thinking of themselves.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Blaise Pascal",
        "slug": "blaise-pascal",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/blaise-pascal"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Pensees",
        "slug": "pensees",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/blaise-pascal/pensees"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "loneliness",
          "slug": "loneliness",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/loneliness"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pens%C3%A9es#Section_II:_The_Misery_of_Man_without_God_(60-183)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:59:47"
    },
    {
      "id": "c1586923-0fab-4990-8822-46f5a47fc0d0",
      "slug": "those-who-think",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/the-social-contract/those-who-think",
      "text": "Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Jean Jacques Rousseau",
        "slug": "jean-jacques-rousseau",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Social Contract",
        "slug": "the-social-contract",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/the-social-contract"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 49,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "freedom",
          "slug": "freedom",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Social_Contract#Quotes",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:59:45"
    },
    {
      "id": "2baae0e5-949d-4ee3-94fe-932afff92bba",
      "slug": "everything-conspires-to-take",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/the-social-contract/everything-conspires-to-take",
      "text": "Everything conspires to take away from a man who is set in authority over others the sense of justice and reason.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Jean Jacques Rousseau",
        "slug": "jean-jacques-rousseau",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Social Contract",
        "slug": "the-social-contract",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/the-social-contract"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "justice",
          "slug": "justice",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/justice"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Social_Contract#Quotes",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:59:45"
    },
    {
      "id": "e56dd1c3-448e-4528-9d8b-ca48dd5b5d2c",
      "slug": "the-strongest-is-never",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/the-social-contract/the-strongest-is-never",
      "text": "The strongest is never strong enough always to be master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Jean Jacques Rousseau",
        "slug": "jean-jacques-rousseau",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Social Contract",
        "slug": "the-social-contract",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/the-social-contract"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "strength",
          "slug": "strength",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/strength"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Social_Contract#Quotes",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:59:44"
    },
    {
      "id": "c8e12059-e9ec-4f90-a1b4-b56eba8ab268",
      "slug": "when-you-are",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kate-dicamillo/the-tale-of-despereaux/when-you-are",
      "text": "When you are a king, you may make as many ridiculous laws as you like. That is what being a king is all about.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Kate DiCamillo",
        "slug": "kate-dicamillo",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kate-dicamillo"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Tale of Despereaux",
        "slug": "the-tale-of-despereaux",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kate-dicamillo/the-tale-of-despereaux"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "humor",
          "slug": "humor",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor"
        },
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kate_DiCamillo#The_Tale_of_Despereaux_(2004)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:59:40"
    },
    {
      "id": "157def73-586c-4569-91a9-4ed65c29d7db",
      "slug": "like-bancroft-macintyre",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-morgan/altered-carbon/like-bancroft-macintyre",
      "text": "Like Bancroft, MacIntyre had been a man of power, and like all men of power, when he talked of prices worth paying, you could be sure of one thing.\n\nSomeone else was paying.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Richard Morgan",
        "slug": "richard-morgan",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-morgan"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Altered Carbon",
        "slug": "altered-carbon",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-morgan/altered-carbon"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 217,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "sacrifice",
          "slug": "sacrifice",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sacrifice"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Morgan#Altered_Carbon_(2002)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:59:31"
    },
    {
      "id": "11457521-4213-4960-8fad-b7c578881a40",
      "slug": "naturally-these-penalties",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-morgan/altered-carbon/naturally-these-penalties",
      "text": "Naturally these penalties were applicable only to private citizens, not military commanders or government executives. The powerful are jealous of their toys.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Richard Morgan",
        "slug": "richard-morgan",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-morgan"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Altered Carbon",
        "slug": "altered-carbon",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-morgan/altered-carbon"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 371,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "hypocrisy",
          "slug": "hypocrisy",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hypocrisy"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Morgan#Altered_Carbon_(2002)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:59:31"
    },
    {
      "id": "7701d25c-8b77-4275-af0c-560a85689197",
      "slug": "thats-power-mitch",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frederik-pohl/the-space-merchants/thats-power-mitch",
      "text": "That’s power, Mitch, absolute power. And you know the old saying. Power ennobles. Absolute power ennobles absolutely.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Frederik Pohl",
        "slug": "frederik-pohl",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frederik-pohl"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Space Merchants",
        "slug": "the-space-merchants",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frederik-pohl/the-space-merchants"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 44,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "irony",
          "slug": "irony",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/irony"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Frederik_Pohl#The_Space_Merchants_(1953)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:59:30"
    },
    {
      "id": "8443f2b6-dc51-4776-bfd6-d11f665f5e29",
      "slug": "everyone-at-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams/to-green-angel-tower/everyone-at-the",
      "text": "Everyone at the Hayholt had seemed obsessed with the empty ritual of power, something Miriamele had lived with for so long that it held no interest for her. It was like watching a confusing game played by bad-tempered children.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Tad Williams",
        "slug": "tad-williams",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "To Green Angel Tower",
        "slug": "to-green-angel-tower",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams/to-green-angel-tower"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 99,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tad_Williams#Part_2",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:59:29"
    },
    {
      "id": "28440d69-8d14-4397-bccc-5c0ad52ad0af",
      "slug": "you-have-something",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams/to-green-angel-tower/you-have-something",
      "text": "“You have something that might be more use to me than either gold or power—something that in fact brings both in its train.”\n\n“And what is that?”\n\nThe count leaned forward. “Knowledge.”",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Tad Williams",
        "slug": "tad-williams",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "To Green Angel Tower",
        "slug": "to-green-angel-tower",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams/to-green-angel-tower"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 491,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "knowledge",
          "slug": "knowledge",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/knowledge"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tad_Williams#Part_2",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:59:29"
    },
    {
      "id": "ab2db717-d7b7-4272-be64-02c1eebc8a79",
      "slug": "a-kings-son",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams/the-dragonbone-chair/a-kings-son",
      "text": "A king’s son has nothing but inferiors, each one a potential assassin.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Tad Williams",
        "slug": "tad-williams",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Dragonbone Chair",
        "slug": "the-dragonbone-chair",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams/the-dragonbone-chair"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 12,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "trust",
          "slug": "trust",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/trust"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tad_Williams#The_Dragonbone_Chair_(1988)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:59:28"
    },
    {
      "id": "36d7d325-bd06-476e-b52d-d10fad60cdbc",
      "slug": "nothing-is-without",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams/the-dragonbone-chair/nothing-is-without",
      "text": "Nothing is without cost. There is a price to all power, and it is not always obvious.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Tad Williams",
        "slug": "tad-williams",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Dragonbone Chair",
        "slug": "the-dragonbone-chair",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams/the-dragonbone-chair"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 142,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tad_Williams#The_Dragonbone_Chair_(1988)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:59:28"
    },
    {
      "id": "e09056ac-ab39-4959-ad5d-8a0e51023329",
      "slug": "you-cant-predict",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/neamat-imam/the-black-coat/you-cant-predict",
      "text": "You can’t predict anything about a ruler.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Neamat Imam",
        "slug": "neamat-imam",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/neamat-imam"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Black Coat",
        "slug": "the-black-coat",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/neamat-imam/the-black-coat"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Neamat_Imam#The_Black_Coat_(2013)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:59:15"
    },
    {
      "id": "a4b15708-3096-4788-a1bb-c2fe2b111916",
      "slug": "why-do-people",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/naguib-mahfouz/the-harafish/why-do-people",
      "text": "Why do people laugh, dance in triumph, feel recklessly secure in positions of power? Why do they not remember the true place in the scheme of things and their inevitable end?",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Naguib Mahfouz",
        "slug": "naguib-mahfouz",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/naguib-mahfouz"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Harafish",
        "slug": "the-harafish",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/naguib-mahfouz/the-harafish"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 272,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "death",
          "slug": "death",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/death"
        },
        {
          "name": "pride",
          "slug": "pride",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/pride"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Naguib_Mahfouz#The_Harafish_(1977)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:59:14"
    },
    {
      "id": "4ba12683-d7d7-4701-ab32-721a92408e60",
      "slug": "it-is-a-terrible",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-pressfield/last-of-the-amazons/it-is-a-terrible",
      "text": "It is a terrible thing to be a king, especially a great one, for one must serve ideals of the spirit at the price of lovers of flesh and blood. Who profits from a king's fidelity save generations a thousand years unborn, and which of his works will they recall at that remove, or care?",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Steven Pressfield",
        "slug": "steven-pressfield",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-pressfield"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Last of the Amazons",
        "slug": "last-of-the-amazons",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-pressfield/last-of-the-amazons"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 221,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "sacrifice",
          "slug": "sacrifice",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sacrifice"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Steven_Pressfield#Last_of_the_Amazons_(2002)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:59:11"
    },
    {
      "id": "643dd245-cabc-48f4-b968-110bca2e6b68",
      "slug": "truth-is-cheap",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-cadigan/synners/truth-is-cheap",
      "text": "“‘Truth is cheap, but information costs.’ I can’t remember who said that.”\n\n“Vince What’s-His-Name,” said Sam. “Died in a terrorist raid or something. I thought you said all information should be free.”\n\n“It should. It isn’t. Knowledge is power. But power corrupts. Which means the Age of Fast Information is an extremely corrupt age in which to live.”\n\n“Aren’t they all?” Sam asked him.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Pat Cadigan",
        "slug": "pat-cadigan",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-cadigan"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Synners",
        "slug": "synners",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-cadigan/synners"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 52,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "knowledge",
          "slug": "knowledge",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/knowledge"
        },
        {
          "name": "corruption",
          "slug": "corruption",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/corruption"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pat_Cadigan#Synners_(1991)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:59:08"
    },
    {
      "id": "729c7faf-db42-41c1-9d72-acd3de3fd9c4",
      "slug": "the-powers-who",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/leslie-marmon-silko/almanac-of-the-dead/the-powers-who",
      "text": "The powers who controlled the United States didn't want the people to know their history. If the people knew their history, they would realize they must rise up. (Part Three, Book Two: Arizona)",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Leslie Marmon Silko",
        "slug": "leslie-marmon-silko",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/leslie-marmon-silko"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Almanac of the Dead",
        "slug": "almanac-of-the-dead",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/leslie-marmon-silko/almanac-of-the-dead"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "history",
          "slug": "history",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/history"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Leslie_Marmon_Silko#Almanac_of_the_Dead_(1991)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:59:00"
    },
    {
      "id": "d3e3622a-008e-472f-8cb3-09139f4b0ae8",
      "slug": "people-will-do-almost",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/brene-brown/atlas-of-the-heart/people-will-do-almost",
      "text": "People will do almost anything to not feel pain, including causing pain and abusing power",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Brené Brown",
        "slug": "brene-brown",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/brene-brown"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Atlas of the Heart",
        "slug": "atlas-of-the-heart",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/brene-brown/atlas-of-the-heart"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "suffering",
          "slug": "suffering",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/suffering"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bren%C3%A9_Brown#Atlas_of_the_Heart:_Mapping_Meaningful_Connection_and_the_Language_of_Human_Experience_(2021)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:59"
    },
    {
      "id": "1175cf72-ad61-4415-ab01-3e6553ea5ecd",
      "slug": "although-styles-of-leadership",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-greene/the-laws-of-human-nature/although-styles-of-leadership",
      "text": "Although styles of leadership change with the times, one constant remains: people are always ambivalent about those in power. They want to be led but also to feel free; they want to be protected and enjoy prosperity without making sacrifices; they both worship the king and want to kill him. When you are the leader of a group, people are continually prepared to turn on you the moment you seem weak or experience a setback. Do not succumb to the prejudices of the times, imagining that what you need to do to gain their loyalty is to seem to be their equal or their friend; people will doubt your strength, become suspicious of your motives, and respond with hidden contempt. Authority is the delicate art of creating the appearance of power, legitimacy, and fairness while getting people to identify with you as a leader who is in their service. If you want to lead, you must master this art from early on in your life. Once you have gained people’s trust, they will stand by you as their leader, no matter the bad circumstances.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Robert Greene",
        "slug": "robert-greene",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-greene"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Laws of Human Nature",
        "slug": "the-laws-of-human-nature",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-greene/the-laws-of-human-nature"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "leadership",
          "slug": "leadership",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/leadership"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Greene_(American_author)#The_Laws_of_Human_Nature_(2018)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:59"
    },
    {
      "id": "103dd989-b525-4cd5-83a3-16e299545260",
      "slug": "ive-learned-that",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/brene-brown/atlas-of-the-heart/ive-learned-that",
      "text": "I’ve learned that power is not bad, but the abuse of power or using power over others is the opposite of courage; it’s a desperate attempt to maintain a very fragile ego.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Brené Brown",
        "slug": "brene-brown",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/brene-brown"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Atlas of the Heart",
        "slug": "atlas-of-the-heart",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/brene-brown/atlas-of-the-heart"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "courage",
          "slug": "courage",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/courage"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bren%C3%A9_Brown#Atlas_of_the_Heart:_Mapping_Meaningful_Connection_and_the_Language_of_Human_Experience_(2021)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:59"
    },
    {
      "id": "16d32ff9-69a0-4a7b-98dc-cebc09fc154d",
      "slug": "always-make-those",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-greene/the-48-laws-of-power/always-make-those",
      "text": "Always make those above you feel comfortably superior.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Robert Greene",
        "slug": "robert-greene",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-greene"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The 48 Laws of Power",
        "slug": "the-48-laws-of-power",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-greene/the-48-laws-of-power"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "manipulation",
          "slug": "manipulation",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/manipulation"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Greene_(American_author)#The_48_Laws_of_Power_(1998)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:58"
    },
    {
      "id": "b855db57-b071-4f6d-88ab-4008b59ea7f5",
      "slug": "pain-is-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-dance-with-dragons/pain-is-the",
      "text": "Pain is the price of power.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George RR Martin",
        "slug": "george-rr-martin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Dance with Dragons",
        "slug": "a-dance-with-dragons",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-dance-with-dragons"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "suffering",
          "slug": "suffering",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/suffering"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire#A_Dance_with_Dragons_(2011)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:56"
    },
    {
      "id": "c20e4811-3653-4404-929b-a5d9ae86e774",
      "slug": "some-had-been",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-dance-with-dragons/some-had-been",
      "text": "Some had been heroes, some weaklings, knaves, or cravens. Most were only men—quicker and stronger than most, more skilled with sword and shield, but still prey to pride, ambition, lust, love, anger, jealousy, greed for gold, hunger for power, and all the other failings that afflicted lesser mortals. The best of them overcame their flaws, did their duty, and died with their swords in their hands. The worst...\n\nThe worst were those who played the game of thrones.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George RR Martin",
        "slug": "george-rr-martin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Dance with Dragons",
        "slug": "a-dance-with-dragons",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-dance-with-dragons"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "pride",
          "slug": "pride",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/pride"
        },
        {
          "name": "ambition",
          "slug": "ambition",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/ambition"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire#A_Dance_with_Dragons_(2011)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:55"
    },
    {
      "id": "5686001a-5f88-4a2e-9462-81b95aa5b21c",
      "slug": "three-kings-is-two",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-dance-with-dragons/three-kings-is-two",
      "text": "Three kings is two too many.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George RR Martin",
        "slug": "george-rr-martin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Dance with Dragons",
        "slug": "a-dance-with-dragons",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-dance-with-dragons"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire#A_Dance_with_Dragons_(2011)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:55"
    },
    {
      "id": "5338fa51-5718-47dc-bc9e-6c0a3cc8b267",
      "slug": "kings-and-corpses",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-dance-with-dragons/kings-and-corpses",
      "text": "Kings and corpses always draw attendants.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George RR Martin",
        "slug": "george-rr-martin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Dance with Dragons",
        "slug": "a-dance-with-dragons",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-dance-with-dragons"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "death",
          "slug": "death",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/death"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire#A_Dance_with_Dragons_(2011)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:55"
    },
    {
      "id": "505ae90f-009a-4188-9b58-19220a8547fb",
      "slug": "things-can-change",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-dance-with-dragons/things-can-change",
      "text": "Things can change quickly in the game of thrones.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George RR Martin",
        "slug": "george-rr-martin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Dance with Dragons",
        "slug": "a-dance-with-dragons",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-dance-with-dragons"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "change",
          "slug": "change",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/change"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire#A_Dance_with_Dragons_(2011)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:55"
    },
    {
      "id": "f4bf10e9-fb0e-4023-b693-825d9d0dc899",
      "slug": "what-one-king",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-dance-with-dragons/what-one-king",
      "text": "What one king does, another may undo.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George RR Martin",
        "slug": "george-rr-martin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Dance with Dragons",
        "slug": "a-dance-with-dragons",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-dance-with-dragons"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire#A_Dance_with_Dragons_(2011)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:54"
    },
    {
      "id": "d4901dc7-d117-4f56-a1a0-ee572884d450",
      "slug": "gods-and-wonders",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-dance-with-dragons/gods-and-wonders",
      "text": "Gods and wonders always appear, to attend the birth of kings.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George RR Martin",
        "slug": "george-rr-martin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Dance with Dragons",
        "slug": "a-dance-with-dragons",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-dance-with-dragons"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "mythology",
          "slug": "mythology",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/mythology"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire#A_Dance_with_Dragons_(2011)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:54"
    },
    {
      "id": "f7721b62-3465-44a7-98ab-51bdd9058a3b",
      "slug": "i-am-tempted",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/i-am-tempted",
      "text": "I am tempted to say this is no game we play, daughter, but of course it is. The game of thrones.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George RR Martin",
        "slug": "george-rr-martin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Feast for Crows",
        "slug": "a-feast-for-crows",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire#A_Feast_for_Crows_(2005)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:53"
    },
    {
      "id": "e00533d8-2620-48ea-9e82-622dfb8075f2",
      "slug": "the-more-you",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/the-more-you",
      "text": "The more you give a king the more he wants. We are walking on a bridge of ice with an abyss on either side. Pleasing one king is difficult enough. Pleasing two is hardly possible.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George RR Martin",
        "slug": "george-rr-martin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Feast for Crows",
        "slug": "a-feast-for-crows",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "greed",
          "slug": "greed",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/greed"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire#A_Feast_for_Crows_(2005)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:53"
    },
    {
      "id": "a6fa62b8-d6af-4f4d-912e-2a585743680a",
      "slug": "he-blamed-jon",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/he-blamed-jon",
      "text": "He blamed Jon Snow and wondered when Jon's heart had turned to stone. Once he asked Maester Aemon that very question, when Gilly was down at the canal fetching water for them. “When you raised him up to be the lord commander,” the old man answered.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George RR Martin",
        "slug": "george-rr-martin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Feast for Crows",
        "slug": "a-feast-for-crows",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "loneliness",
          "slug": "loneliness",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/loneliness"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire#A_Feast_for_Crows_(2005)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:53"
    },
    {
      "id": "79758d4e-9bd1-4b78-af17-971bd592c560",
      "slug": "a-woman-may",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/a-woman-may",
      "text": "A woman may weep, but not a queen.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George RR Martin",
        "slug": "george-rr-martin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Feast for Crows",
        "slug": "a-feast-for-crows",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "sadness",
          "slug": "sadness",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sadness"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire#A_Feast_for_Crows_(2005)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:53"
    },
    {
      "id": "3e6d7932-7de0-42c1-b6e3-e8ba6c651089",
      "slug": "on-the-morning",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/on-the-morning",
      "text": "On the morning after the battle, the crows had feasted on victors and vanquished alike, as once they had feasted on Rhaegar Targaryen after the Trident. How much can a crown be worth, when a crow can dine upon a king?",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George RR Martin",
        "slug": "george-rr-martin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Feast for Crows",
        "slug": "a-feast-for-crows",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "death",
          "slug": "death",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/death"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire#A_Feast_for_Crows_(2005)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:53"
    },
    {
      "id": "3dd323d9-6fd9-44c1-9345-4d7b51611c7b",
      "slug": "it-is-being",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/it-is-being",
      "text": "It is being common-born that is dangerous, when the great lords play their game of thrones.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George RR Martin",
        "slug": "george-rr-martin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Feast for Crows",
        "slug": "a-feast-for-crows",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "poverty",
          "slug": "poverty",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/poverty"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire#A_Feast_for_Crows_(2005)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:53"
    },
    {
      "id": "b25e529a-45dd-4384-9d2d-00c184f1f68d",
      "slug": "she-was-daenerys",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-storm-of-swords/she-was-daenerys",
      "text": "She was Daenerys Stormborn, the Unburnt, khaleesi and queen, Mother of Dragons, slayer of warlocks, breaker of chains, and there was no one in the world that she could trust.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George RR Martin",
        "slug": "george-rr-martin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Storm of Swords",
        "slug": "a-storm-of-swords",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-storm-of-swords"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "loneliness",
          "slug": "loneliness",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/loneliness"
        },
        {
          "name": "trust",
          "slug": "trust",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/trust"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire#A_Storm_of_Swords_(2000)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:52"
    },
    {
      "id": "611126ee-2de2-4d63-bed8-cd95338b3338",
      "slug": "if-this-was",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-storm-of-swords/if-this-was",
      "text": "If this was power, why did it taste like tedium?",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George RR Martin",
        "slug": "george-rr-martin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Storm of Swords",
        "slug": "a-storm-of-swords",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-storm-of-swords"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "boredom",
          "slug": "boredom",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/boredom"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire#A_Storm_of_Swords_(2000)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:52"
    },
    {
      "id": "4bf94e83-4e8b-4b7f-986e-5f691e00e9e3",
      "slug": "lord-seaworth-is-a-man",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-storm-of-swords/lord-seaworth-is-a-man",
      "text": "Lord Seaworth is a man of humble birth, but he reminded me of my duty, when all I could think of was my rights. I had the cart before the horse, Davos said. I was trying to win the throne to save the kingdom, when I should have been trying to save the kingdom to win the throne.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George RR Martin",
        "slug": "george-rr-martin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Storm of Swords",
        "slug": "a-storm-of-swords",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-storm-of-swords"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "responsibility",
          "slug": "responsibility",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/responsibility"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire#A_Storm_of_Swords_(2000)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:52"
    },
    {
      "id": "010d1b67-d0cf-43c4-95f1-31187ebd9e5c",
      "slug": "when-the-lion",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/when-the-lion",
      "text": "When the lion falls the lesser beasts move in.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George RR Martin",
        "slug": "george-rr-martin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Feast for Crows",
        "slug": "a-feast-for-crows",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire#A_Feast_for_Crows_(2005)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:52"
    },
    {
      "id": "fefae983-c1e2-46b3-8993-b3cbdde8caa9",
      "slug": "in-kings-landing",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-storm-of-swords/in-kings-landing",
      "text": "In King's Landing, there are two sorts of people: The players and the pieces.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George RR Martin",
        "slug": "george-rr-martin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Storm of Swords",
        "slug": "a-storm-of-swords",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-storm-of-swords"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "manipulation",
          "slug": "manipulation",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/manipulation"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire#A_Storm_of_Swords_(2000)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:51"
    },
    {
      "id": "dc8fc1ec-8b22-40ac-b44c-56ece42625e7",
      "slug": "when-your-enemies",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-storm-of-swords/when-your-enemies",
      "text": "When your enemies defy you, you must serve them steel and fire. When they go to their knees, however, you must help them back to their feet. Elsewise no man will ever bend the knee to you. And any man who must say \"I am the king\" is no king at all.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George RR Martin",
        "slug": "george-rr-martin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Storm of Swords",
        "slug": "a-storm-of-swords",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-storm-of-swords"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "leadership",
          "slug": "leadership",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/leadership"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire#A_Storm_of_Swords_(2000)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:51"
    },
    {
      "id": "9a4a1503-3d5f-4c46-bcce-03be28586a72",
      "slug": "always-keep-your",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-storm-of-swords/always-keep-your",
      "text": "“Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next. Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work against you. Remember that, Sansa, when you come to play the game.”\n\n“What...what game?”\n\n“The only game. The game of thrones.”",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George RR Martin",
        "slug": "george-rr-martin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Storm of Swords",
        "slug": "a-storm-of-swords",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-storm-of-swords"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "manipulation",
          "slug": "manipulation",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/manipulation"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire#A_Storm_of_Swords_(2000)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:51"
    },
    {
      "id": "974e17bd-2e3e-4d3d-8fd4-6b985b6c3242",
      "slug": "i-never-asked",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-storm-of-swords/i-never-asked",
      "text": "I never asked for this crown. Gold is cold and heavy on the head ...",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George RR Martin",
        "slug": "george-rr-martin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Storm of Swords",
        "slug": "a-storm-of-swords",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-storm-of-swords"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire#A_Storm_of_Swords_(2000)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:51"
    },
    {
      "id": "cd5241ab-8ff5-4a15-a3f9-c36437bbe551",
      "slug": "mercy-thought-theon",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-clash-of-kings/mercy-thought-theon",
      "text": "Mercy, thought Theon as Luwin dropped back. There's a bloody trap. Too much and they call you weak, too little and you're monstrous ... His father thought only in terms of conquest, but what good was it to take a kingdom if you could not hold it? Force and fear could only carry you so far.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George RR Martin",
        "slug": "george-rr-martin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Clash of Kings",
        "slug": "a-clash-of-kings",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-clash-of-kings"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "fear",
          "slug": "fear",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear"
        },
        {
          "name": "compassion",
          "slug": "compassion",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/compassion"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire#A_Clash_of_Kings_(1999)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:48"
    },
    {
      "id": "88aa365e-6e1f-4a4a-8eff-a2fb7994d3d7",
      "slug": "it-is-better",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-clash-of-kings/it-is-better",
      "text": "It is better to be seen as cruel than foolish.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George RR Martin",
        "slug": "george-rr-martin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Clash of Kings",
        "slug": "a-clash-of-kings",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-clash-of-kings"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "stupidity",
          "slug": "stupidity",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/stupidity"
        },
        {
          "name": "cruelty",
          "slug": "cruelty",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cruelty"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire#A_Clash_of_Kings_(1999)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:48"
    },
    {
      "id": "582c901f-0e11-41ad-b02e-8b566ed9ed0c",
      "slug": "the-only-way",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-clash-of-kings/the-only-way",
      "text": "The only way to keep people loyal is to make sure they fear you more than the enemy.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George RR Martin",
        "slug": "george-rr-martin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Clash of Kings",
        "slug": "a-clash-of-kings",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-clash-of-kings"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "fear",
          "slug": "fear",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear"
        },
        {
          "name": "loyalty",
          "slug": "loyalty",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/loyalty"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire#A_Clash_of_Kings_(1999)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:48"
    },
    {
      "id": "ce267c61-f28c-4209-ac7b-5c12ec4a6840",
      "slug": "kings-have-no-friends",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-clash-of-kings/kings-have-no-friends",
      "text": "“Kings have no friends,” Stannis said bluntly, “only subjects and enemies.”",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George RR Martin",
        "slug": "george-rr-martin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Clash of Kings",
        "slug": "a-clash-of-kings",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-clash-of-kings"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "loneliness",
          "slug": "loneliness",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/loneliness"
        },
        {
          "name": "friendship",
          "slug": "friendship",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire#A_Clash_of_Kings_(1999)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:47"
    },
    {
      "id": "b142b2bb-bf3b-49f5-a883-a9719e2a2fe1",
      "slug": "hell-want-what",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-clash-of-kings/hell-want-what",
      "text": "“He’ll want what kings always want,” she said. “Homage.”",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George RR Martin",
        "slug": "george-rr-martin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Clash of Kings",
        "slug": "a-clash-of-kings",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-clash-of-kings"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire#A_Clash_of_Kings_(1999)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:47"
    },
    {
      "id": "adbeb588-78b6-4c00-b04f-0d8165ce95bd",
      "slug": "the-smallfolk-are",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-clash-of-kings/the-smallfolk-are",
      "text": "The smallfolk are always eager to believe the worst of their lords.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George RR Martin",
        "slug": "george-rr-martin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Clash of Kings",
        "slug": "a-clash-of-kings",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-clash-of-kings"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "gossip",
          "slug": "gossip",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/gossip"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire#A_Clash_of_Kings_(1999)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:47"
    },
    {
      "id": "7fe25f0e-6da1-47d4-a026-ad3b0f64f875",
      "slug": "it-is-real",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-clash-of-kings/it-is-real",
      "text": "It is real, all of it, he thought, the wars, the intrigues, the great bloody game, and me in the center of it ... me, the dwarf, the monster, the one they scorned and laughed at, but now I hold it all, the city, the girl. This was what I was made for, and gods forgive me, but I love it.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George RR Martin",
        "slug": "george-rr-martin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Clash of Kings",
        "slug": "a-clash-of-kings",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-clash-of-kings"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "ambition",
          "slug": "ambition",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/ambition"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire#A_Clash_of_Kings_(1999)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:47"
    },
    {
      "id": "699f9caa-0baa-4046-a318-f9527fc2f5f2",
      "slug": "if-it-is-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-clash-of-kings/if-it-is-the",
      "text": "If it is the swordsmen who rule us in truth, why do we pretend kings have the power?",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George RR Martin",
        "slug": "george-rr-martin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Clash of Kings",
        "slug": "a-clash-of-kings",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-clash-of-kings"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "violence",
          "slug": "violence",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/violence"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire#A_Clash_of_Kings_(1999)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:47"
    },
    {
      "id": "14077b63-5647-4491-8eee-cbe295057ad1",
      "slug": "power-resides-where",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-clash-of-kings/power-resides-where",
      "text": "\"Power resides where men believe it resides. No more and no less.\"\n\n\"So power is a mummer's trick?\"\n\n\"A shadow on the wall,\" Varys murmured, \"yet shadows can kill. And ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.\"",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George RR Martin",
        "slug": "george-rr-martin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Clash of Kings",
        "slug": "a-clash-of-kings",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-clash-of-kings"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire#A_Clash_of_Kings_(1999)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:47"
    },
    {
      "id": "04abc9ac-bafd-4bf8-a5a6-a07ed39ef924",
      "slug": "when-a-pirate",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-clash-of-kings/when-a-pirate",
      "text": "When a pirate grows rich enough, they make him a prince.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George RR Martin",
        "slug": "george-rr-martin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Clash of Kings",
        "slug": "a-clash-of-kings",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-clash-of-kings"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire#A_Clash_of_Kings_(1999)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:47"
    },
    {
      "id": "fd941987-c30a-4b3e-a3af-a6dfb2c7c6ec",
      "slug": "anger-flashed-in-her",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-game-of-thrones/anger-flashed-in-her",
      "text": "Anger flashed in her brother’s lilac eyes. “Do you take me for a fool?”\n\nThe magister bowed slightly. “I take you for a king. Kings lack the caution of common men.”",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George RR Martin",
        "slug": "george-rr-martin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Game of Thrones",
        "slug": "a-game-of-thrones",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-game-of-thrones"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire#A_Game_of_Thrones_(1996)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:46"
    },
    {
      "id": "f8b9d98e-7750-4f47-8c47-5058bcdb472b",
      "slug": "catelyn-was-finding",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-clash-of-kings/catelyn-was-finding",
      "text": "Catelyn was finding that kings do not listen half so attentively as sons.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George RR Martin",
        "slug": "george-rr-martin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Clash of Kings",
        "slug": "a-clash-of-kings",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-clash-of-kings"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire#A_Clash_of_Kings_(1999)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:46"
    },
    {
      "id": "9f7112dc-6cbe-420f-bc21-60c05ffe66a6",
      "slug": "some-commands-are",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-game-of-thrones/some-commands-are",
      "text": "Some commands are more easily given than obeyed.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George RR Martin",
        "slug": "george-rr-martin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Game of Thrones",
        "slug": "a-game-of-thrones",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-game-of-thrones"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire#A_Game_of_Thrones_(1996)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:46"
    },
    {
      "id": "9d8e4cb0-23a6-4608-b074-e695886dc5d7",
      "slug": "i-ask-you",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-game-of-thrones/i-ask-you",
      "text": "I ask you, Ned, what good is it to wear a crown? The gods mock the prayers of kings and cowherds alike.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George RR Martin",
        "slug": "george-rr-martin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Game of Thrones",
        "slug": "a-game-of-thrones",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-game-of-thrones"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire#A_Game_of_Thrones_(1996)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:46"
    },
    {
      "id": "99d5accb-550e-4377-be20-ed4f4a8663c1",
      "slug": "a-ruler-who",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-game-of-thrones/a-ruler-who",
      "text": "A ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George RR Martin",
        "slug": "george-rr-martin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Game of Thrones",
        "slug": "a-game-of-thrones",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-game-of-thrones"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "death",
          "slug": "death",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/death"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire#A_Game_of_Thrones_(1996)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:46"
    },
    {
      "id": "8726c4d2-3937-48d6-bc10-84875e2f47f9",
      "slug": "tell-me-lord",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-game-of-thrones/tell-me-lord",
      "text": "Tell me, Lord Eddard ... why is it always the innocents who suffer most, when you high lords play your game of thrones?",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George RR Martin",
        "slug": "george-rr-martin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Game of Thrones",
        "slug": "a-game-of-thrones",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-game-of-thrones"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "suffering",
          "slug": "suffering",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/suffering"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire#A_Game_of_Thrones_(1996)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:46"
    },
    {
      "id": "6185de35-f080-4c25-8c57-531607748219",
      "slug": "crowns-do-queer",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-clash-of-kings/crowns-do-queer",
      "text": "Crowns do queer things to the heads beneath them.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George RR Martin",
        "slug": "george-rr-martin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Clash of Kings",
        "slug": "a-clash-of-kings",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-clash-of-kings"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire#A_Clash_of_Kings_(1999)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:46"
    },
    {
      "id": "59ece8f5-6ce8-4a9f-90f5-3250c822b6c9",
      "slug": "when-you-play",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-game-of-thrones/when-you-play",
      "text": "When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George RR Martin",
        "slug": "george-rr-martin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Game of Thrones",
        "slug": "a-game-of-thrones",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-game-of-thrones"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire#A_Game_of_Thrones_(1996)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:46"
    },
    {
      "id": "43bd8e90-0113-4768-a98f-e82d6256c7de",
      "slug": "i-swear-to-you",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-game-of-thrones/i-swear-to-you",
      "text": "I swear to you, I was never so alive as when I was winning this throne, or so dead as now that I've won it.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George RR Martin",
        "slug": "george-rr-martin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Game of Thrones",
        "slug": "a-game-of-thrones",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-game-of-thrones"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "ambition",
          "slug": "ambition",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/ambition"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire#A_Game_of_Thrones_(1996)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:46"
    },
    {
      "id": "2ec2f7e2-89f1-4e08-a255-4bf95a13e8ff",
      "slug": "the-common-people",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-game-of-thrones/the-common-people",
      "text": "“The common people pray for rain, healthy children, and a summer that never ends,” Ser Jorah told her. “It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace.” He gave a shrug. “They never are.”",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George RR Martin",
        "slug": "george-rr-martin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Game of Thrones",
        "slug": "a-game-of-thrones",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-game-of-thrones"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "peace",
          "slug": "peace",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire#A_Game_of_Thrones_(1996)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:46"
    },
    {
      "id": "327ded4a-f61d-4051-88fc-57df8151d637",
      "slug": "it-is-true",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/andrew-zimbalist/baseball-and-billions/it-is-true",
      "text": "It is true that I described antisocial, parsimonious, sanctimonious, and wasteful behavior by the owners over the years, but baseball's problem is structural, not individual. Put any individual into a position of power with an opportunity to make tens of millions of dollars in an industry that is on a cultural pedestal and protected from all forms of competition, and the odds are against the second coming of Lee Iacocca or Ralph Nader.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Andrew Zimbalist",
        "slug": "andrew-zimbalist",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/andrew-zimbalist"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Baseball And Billions",
        "slug": "baseball-and-billions",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/andrew-zimbalist/baseball-and-billions"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andrew_Zimbalist#Baseball_And_Billions_-_Updated_edition_-_(1992)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:44"
    },
    {
      "id": "28641ae8-0f29-4322-bef6-cee4318ea8d4",
      "slug": "some-people-are",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-scalzi/the-last-colony/some-people-are",
      "text": "Some people are just no good at not being in charge.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "John Scalzi",
        "slug": "john-scalzi",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-scalzi"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Last Colony",
        "slug": "the-last-colony",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-scalzi/the-last-colony"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 57,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "humor",
          "slug": "humor",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor"
        },
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Scalzi#The_Last_Colony_(2007)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:43"
    },
    {
      "id": "10907482-5d54-4697-9314-85f1b6121a8b",
      "slug": "when-you-control",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-scalzi/the-last-colony/when-you-control",
      "text": "When you control communication, you can hide anything you want.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "John Scalzi",
        "slug": "john-scalzi",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-scalzi"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Last Colony",
        "slug": "the-last-colony",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-scalzi/the-last-colony"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 97,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "manipulation",
          "slug": "manipulation",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/manipulation"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Scalzi#The_Last_Colony_(2007)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:43"
    },
    {
      "id": "c426950e-3a48-48ad-91a2-9ec16d4a1636",
      "slug": "when-power-is-within",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-scalzi/the-ghost-brigades/when-power-is-within",
      "text": "When power is within reach, few will wait patiently for it.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "John Scalzi",
        "slug": "john-scalzi",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-scalzi"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Ghost Brigades",
        "slug": "the-ghost-brigades",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-scalzi/the-ghost-brigades"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 169,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Scalzi#The_Ghost_Brigades_(2006)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:42"
    },
    {
      "id": "34cc530b-87d4-46d6-bab8-8575b26deee3",
      "slug": "it-is-not",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/avram-davidson/the-phoenix-and-the-mirror/it-is-not",
      "text": "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.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Avram Davidson",
        "slug": "avram-davidson",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/avram-davidson"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Phoenix and the Mirror",
        "slug": "the-phoenix-and-the-mirror",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/avram-davidson/the-phoenix-and-the-mirror"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "freedom",
          "slug": "freedom",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Avram_Davidson#The_Phoenix_and_the_Mirror_(1969)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:41"
    },
    {
      "id": "949f20ab-20c1-4bb3-a03a-4b47df642191",
      "slug": "ive-never-liked",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/don-delillo/cosmopolis/ive-never-liked",
      "text": "I've never liked thinking back, going back in time, reviewing the day or the week or the life. To crush and gut. To eviscerate. Power works best when there's no memory attached.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Don DeLillo",
        "slug": "don-delillo",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/don-delillo"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Cosmopolis",
        "slug": "cosmopolis",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/don-delillo/cosmopolis"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "memory",
          "slug": "memory",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/memory"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cosmopolis_(novel)#Quotes",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:35"
    },
    {
      "id": "dd8c4078-6bce-4b1f-876b-54533e943a3e",
      "slug": "sweetie-if-ive",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-morrow/towing-jehovah/sweetie-if-ive",
      "text": "Sweetie, if I’ve learned anything during my ten years at sea, it’s this. Never confuse your captain with God.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "James Morrow",
        "slug": "james-morrow",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-morrow"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Towing Jehovah",
        "slug": "towing-jehovah",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-morrow/towing-jehovah"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 74,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "humor",
          "slug": "humor",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor"
        },
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_K._Morrow#Towing_Jehovah_(1994)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:29"
    },
    {
      "id": "39b41da9-61d4-4bdd-a8fe-b1fafb388f7a",
      "slug": "as-with-all",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-morrow/bible-stories-for-adults/as-with-all",
      "text": "As with all things political, the issue was power.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "James Morrow",
        "slug": "james-morrow",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-morrow"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Bible Stories for Adults",
        "slug": "bible-stories-for-adults",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-morrow/bible-stories-for-adults"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 140,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_K._Morrow#Bible_Stories_for_Adults_(1996)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:26"
    },
    {
      "id": "a8c46afb-33b0-446e-b334-f75703c39e7d",
      "slug": "government-affairs-are",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/scott-lynch/the-republic-of-thieves/government-affairs-are",
      "text": "“Government affairs are a bit beyond our experience,” said Jean.\n\n“Nonsense. You’ll feel right at home. What is government but theft by consent? You’ll be moving in a society of kindred spirits.”",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Scott Lynch",
        "slug": "scott-lynch",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/scott-lynch"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Republic of Thieves",
        "slug": "the-republic-of-thieves",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/scott-lynch/the-republic-of-thieves"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 105,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "humor",
          "slug": "humor",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor"
        },
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Scott_Lynch#The_Republic_of_Thieves_(2013)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:19"
    },
    {
      "id": "0ebb6373-4ca3-401b-a6ec-441f804f5a34",
      "slug": "most-of-us-find",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/scott-lynch/the-republic-of-thieves/most-of-us-find",
      "text": "Most of us find it starkly ludicrous that the height of all possible ambition, to the ungifted, must be to drape oneself in crowns and robes.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Scott Lynch",
        "slug": "scott-lynch",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/scott-lynch"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Republic of Thieves",
        "slug": "the-republic-of-thieves",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/scott-lynch/the-republic-of-thieves"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 191,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "ambition",
          "slug": "ambition",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/ambition"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Scott_Lynch#The_Republic_of_Thieves_(2013)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:19"
    },
    {
      "id": "a23ec9e5-09b7-41e7-ac47-2728044ad7a1",
      "slug": "in-time-youll",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/scott-lynch/the-lies-of-locke-lamora/in-time-youll",
      "text": "In time, you’ll come to understand that a state like ours cannot afford to offer up a show of weakness for honesty’s sake; Duke Nicovante charges me with vouchsafing his security, not his conscience.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Scott Lynch",
        "slug": "scott-lynch",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/scott-lynch"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Lies of Locke Lamora",
        "slug": "the-lies-of-locke-lamora",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/scott-lynch/the-lies-of-locke-lamora"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 715,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "honesty",
          "slug": "honesty",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/honesty"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Scott_Lynch#The_Lies_of_Locke_Lamora_(2006)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:18"
    },
    {
      "id": "216c9fbd-9501-4ba3-8b4e-139e284fd414",
      "slug": "it-was-strange",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/scott-lynch/the-lies-of-locke-lamora/it-was-strange",
      "text": "It was strange, how readily authority could be conjured with nothing but a bit of strutting jackassery.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Scott Lynch",
        "slug": "scott-lynch",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/scott-lynch"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Lies of Locke Lamora",
        "slug": "the-lies-of-locke-lamora",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/scott-lynch/the-lies-of-locke-lamora"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 567,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "appearances",
          "slug": "appearances",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/appearances"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Scott_Lynch#The_Lies_of_Locke_Lamora_(2006)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:18"
    },
    {
      "id": "fcdc0a7f-c06a-4c40-9bb8-e1c70cf5a46b",
      "slug": "knowledge-is-power",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/peter-sloterdijk/critique-of-cynical-reason/knowledge-is-power",
      "text": "“Knowledge is power.” This is the sentence that dug the grave of philosophy in the nineteenth century. … This sentence brings to an end the tradition of a knowledge that, as its name indicates, was an erotic theory—the love of truth and the truth through love (Liebeswahrheit). … Those who utter the sentence reveal the truth. However, with the utterance they want to achieve more than truth: They want to intervene in the game of power.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Peter Sloterdijk",
        "slug": "peter-sloterdijk",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/peter-sloterdijk"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Critique of Cynical Reason",
        "slug": "critique-of-cynical-reason",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/peter-sloterdijk/critique-of-cynical-reason"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "knowledge",
          "slug": "knowledge",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/knowledge"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Peter_Sloterdijk#Critique_of_Cynical_Reason_(1987)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:17"
    },
    {
      "id": "d47188aa-07ff-44ba-9797-825f6636b390",
      "slug": "the-elephants-fight",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ian-mcdonald/river-of-gods/the-elephants-fight",
      "text": "The elephants fight but the rats go about their business.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Ian McDonald",
        "slug": "ian-mcdonald",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ian-mcdonald"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "River of Gods",
        "slug": "river-of-gods",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ian-mcdonald/river-of-gods"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 458,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ian_McDonald#River_of_Gods_(2006)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:16"
    },
    {
      "id": "12931b9a-8560-4da5-98c6-48c5e101c02b",
      "slug": "she-knew-what",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ian-mcdonald/desolation-road/she-knew-what",
      "text": "She knew what she was now. She had a purpose. Freedom was still hers, but it was a purposeful freedom. She would seek responsibility, for freedom without responsibility was worthless, and to that duality she would add power, for responsibility without power was impotence. She would go to Wisdom and enthrone the trinity of liberties within herself.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Ian McDonald",
        "slug": "ian-mcdonald",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ian-mcdonald"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Desolation Road",
        "slug": "desolation-road",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ian-mcdonald/desolation-road"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 162,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "freedom",
          "slug": "freedom",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom"
        },
        {
          "name": "responsibility",
          "slug": "responsibility",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/responsibility"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ian_McDonald#Desolation_Road_(1988)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:15"
    },
    {
      "id": "0f69686a-2ad9-40ed-8ade-26ea93099461",
      "slug": "society-determines-how",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/peter-l-berger/the-social-construction-of-reality/society-determines-how",
      "text": "Society determines how long and in what manner the individual organism shall live. This determination may be institutionally programmed in the operation of social controls, as in the institution of law. Society can maim and kill. Indeed, it is in its power over life and death that it manifests its ultimate control over the individual.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Peter L. Berger",
        "slug": "peter-l-berger",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/peter-l-berger"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Social Construction of Reality",
        "slug": "the-social-construction-of-reality",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/peter-l-berger/the-social-construction-of-reality"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 202,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "society",
          "slug": "society",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/society"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Peter_L._Berger#The_Social_Construction_of_Reality,_1966",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:15"
    },
    {
      "id": "7c62c230-f218-4eb9-a192-ac1c1ff14175",
      "slug": "egalitarianism-seems-to-be-rooted",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jonathan-haidt/the-righteous-mind/egalitarianism-seems-to-be-rooted",
      "text": "Egalitarianism seems to be rooted more in the hatred of domination than in the love of equality per se.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Jonathan Haidt",
        "slug": "jonathan-haidt",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jonathan-haidt"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Righteous Mind",
        "slug": "the-righteous-mind",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jonathan-haidt/the-righteous-mind"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 209,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "equality",
          "slug": "equality",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/equality"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jonathan_Haidt#The_Righteous_Mind:_Why_Good_People_are_Divided_by_Politics_and_Religion_(2012)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:14"
    },
    {
      "id": "6a93764d-e057-4bfc-943a-6d5582eb55e7",
      "slug": "in-a-city",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ellen-kushner/the-privilege-of-the-sword/in-a-city",
      "text": "In a city where most of the wealth is controlled by a small few, certain things are overlooked, particularly when it comes to the assertion of privilege.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Ellen Kushner",
        "slug": "ellen-kushner",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ellen-kushner"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Privilege of the Sword",
        "slug": "the-privilege-of-the-sword",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ellen-kushner/the-privilege-of-the-sword"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 385,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "wealth",
          "slug": "wealth",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/wealth"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ellen_Kushner#The_Privilege_of_the_Sword_(2006)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:06"
    },
    {
      "id": "b3232b73-b303-4469-9e8b-d24817dd3c21",
      "slug": "the-powerful-have",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/heather-brooke/the-revolution-will-be-digitised/the-powerful-have",
      "text": "The powerful have historically tried to impose their will through mechanisms of enforced ignorance such as censorship, secrecy, threats, physical intimidation and violence. This model is difficult to sustain in a networked world based on Enlightenment values. This is not to say that Western democracies have abandoned these heavy-handed tactics, but more often the methods have shifted to more sophisticated ways of maintaining power such as media management, public relations and legal intimidation. In the midst of all this information and misinformation how can we filter out what is important and true?",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Heather Brooke",
        "slug": "heather-brooke",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/heather-brooke"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Revolution will be Digitised",
        "slug": "the-revolution-will-be-digitised",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/heather-brooke/the-revolution-will-be-digitised"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 72,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "manipulation",
          "slug": "manipulation",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/manipulation"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Heather_Brooke#The_Revolution_Will_Be_Digitised:_Dispatches_From_the_Information_War,_1st_Edition",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:05"
    },
    {
      "id": "62da5bef-60b4-4bd5-8e9a-d1288983faad",
      "slug": "free-speech-is-not",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/heather-brooke/the-revolution-will-be-digitised/free-speech-is-not",
      "text": "Free speech is not the great danger for humanity. Concentration of power is. We learn this lesson over and over again, and yet seem compelled eternally to repeat it. Communism, colonialism, monarchy, state socialism, tyranny- all become enemies of the people because they offer their citizens not too many opportunities to communicate or associate, but too few. Power is the dynamic force that fuels politics and it is this, not speech, which needs to be constantly monitored, controlled and checked. We view crimes against humanity as aberrations, individuals gone wild, when we should be seeing them through the prism of power. Abuse happens when a culture values some people more than others and those exercising power are not accountable for their actions.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Heather Brooke",
        "slug": "heather-brooke",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/heather-brooke"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Revolution will be Digitised",
        "slug": "the-revolution-will-be-digitised",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/heather-brooke/the-revolution-will-be-digitised"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 230,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "freedom of speech",
          "slug": "freedom-of-speech",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom-of-speech"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Heather_Brooke#The_Revolution_Will_Be_Digitised:_Dispatches_From_the_Information_War,_1st_Edition",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:05"
    },
    {
      "id": "3f1d290c-9727-4891-98f1-ea734c110928",
      "slug": "we-seek-a-saviour",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/heather-brooke/the-revolution-will-be-digitised/we-seek-a-saviour",
      "text": "We seek a saviour, someone to rescue us from the problems of the world. A saviour is the simple story, the easy option and that is why it is so compelling. You don't have to do anything except believe. There's no need to negotiate with other people, or figure out how to create a robust system within the bizarre and contradictory parameters of human nature. I must admit I fell prey to this when I first met Julian Assange. He was going to lead the way to a bold new age. Instead I learned that power when concentrated is dangerous no matter who holds it or for whatever good intention. The real revolution happens in our own minds, when we stop believing there is someone or some agency who has all the answers, who is infallible and will save us, and instead come to realise we have that ability within ourselves. We may be susceptible to cults of personality, but we can build a check against this into our political systems.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Heather Brooke",
        "slug": "heather-brooke",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/heather-brooke"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Revolution will be Digitised",
        "slug": "the-revolution-will-be-digitised",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/heather-brooke/the-revolution-will-be-digitised"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 237,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Heather_Brooke#The_Revolution_Will_Be_Digitised:_Dispatches_From_the_Information_War,_1st_Edition",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:05"
    },
    {
      "id": "1f089c13-e089-4f8c-90c1-bde973077a4d",
      "slug": "eminent-men-were",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/murray-leinster/the-wailing-asteroid/eminent-men-were",
      "text": "Eminent men were called on to take command and arrange suitable measures. They immediately acted as eminent men so often do; they took action to retain their eminence. Their first instinct was caution. When a man is important enough, it does not matter if he never does anything. It is only required of him that he do nothing wrong. Eminent figures all over the world prepared to do nothing wrong. They were not so concerned to do anything right.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Murray Leinster",
        "slug": "murray-leinster",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/murray-leinster"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Wailing Asteroid",
        "slug": "the-wailing-asteroid",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/murray-leinster/the-wailing-asteroid"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 32,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Murray_Leinster#The_Wailing_Asteroid_(1960)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:03"
    },
    {
      "id": "9c076818-6623-445c-abdb-61c58c959304",
      "slug": "it-is-an-inflexible",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmund-cooper/the-uncertain-midnight/it-is-an-inflexible",
      "text": "It is an inflexible law that all living things must seek to dominate their environment.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Edmund Cooper",
        "slug": "edmund-cooper",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmund-cooper"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Uncertain Midnight",
        "slug": "the-uncertain-midnight",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmund-cooper/the-uncertain-midnight"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "nature",
          "slug": "nature",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/nature"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edmund_Cooper#The_Uncertain_Midnight_(1958)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:57:58"
    },
    {
      "id": "e00b8762-1f92-4cba-81a6-e1866cd42828",
      "slug": "it-is-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-gemmell/the-swords-of-night-and-day/it-is-the",
      "text": "It is the curse of absolute power, Olek. There is no one to admonish you, no laws save those you make. We like to believe there is something special, even alien, about evil. We like to think that tyrants are different from the rest of us. That they are somehow inhuman. They are not. They are merely unchained, unfettered; free to do as they please.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "David Gemmell",
        "slug": "david-gemmell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-gemmell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Swords of Night and Day",
        "slug": "the-swords-of-night-and-day",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-gemmell/the-swords-of-night-and-day"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "evil",
          "slug": "evil",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/evil"
        },
        {
          "name": "tyranny",
          "slug": "tyranny",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/tyranny"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Gemmell#The_Swords_of_Night_and_Day",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:57:55"
    },
    {
      "id": "dd6f5296-7404-4523-8ba6-d49966a65a37",
      "slug": "no-golden-age",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-gemmell/the-swords-of-night-and-day/no-golden-age",
      "text": "\"No golden age to discover now,\" he whispered. \"No end to disease and starvation. No, bright sparkling cities reaching the clouds ... All that I have lived for is gone now. I am so tired.\"\n\n\"Then think on this, priest: You stopped the Eternal from finding greater weapons. Your actions here have led to her death. The world is free again.\"\n\n\"Free? Of one tyrant perhaps. You think there will be no others?\"\n\n\"No, I do not. But I know there will always be men to stand against them. You grieve because of a pure magic lost. That magic was corrupted by evil. This is how evil thrives. We find an herb that cures disease, and someone will make a poison from it. We forge iron to make a better plow, and someone will make a sharper sword. There can be no power that evil will not corrupt.\"",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "David Gemmell",
        "slug": "david-gemmell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-gemmell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Swords of Night and Day",
        "slug": "the-swords-of-night-and-day",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-gemmell/the-swords-of-night-and-day"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "evil",
          "slug": "evil",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/evil"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Gemmell#The_Swords_of_Night_and_Day",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:57:55"
    },
    {
      "id": "3bbfbfbb-a8d8-4036-b80c-c4be8898eee2",
      "slug": "it-seems-to-me-that",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-gemmell/the-king-beyond-the-gate/it-seems-to-me-that",
      "text": "\"It seems to me that a man has only as much power as we allow him. Can Ceska move mountains? Can he put out the stars? Can he tell rain to fall? He is only a man, and if everyone disobeyed him, he would fall. But they don’t, do they? It is said that he has an army of forty thousand men. Men. Drenai men! Ready to march on other Drenai men. At least in the Nadir Wars we were sure of our enemy. Now there is no enemy. Only failed friends.”",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "David Gemmell",
        "slug": "david-gemmell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-gemmell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The King Beyond the Gate",
        "slug": "the-king-beyond-the-gate",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-gemmell/the-king-beyond-the-gate"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Gemmell#The_King_Beyond_the_Gate",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:57:54"
    },
    {
      "id": "a47df6f2-d93e-4ecb-bc8c-0d57737127a5",
      "slug": "while-men-compete",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-gemmell/legend/while-men-compete",
      "text": "While men compete in war, there will be warriors. While there are warriors, there will be princes among warriors. Among the princes will be kings, and among the kings an emperor.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "David Gemmell",
        "slug": "david-gemmell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-gemmell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Legend",
        "slug": "legend",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-gemmell/legend"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "war",
          "slug": "war",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Gemmell#Legend",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:57:53"
    },
    {
      "id": "d1f70be4-32ea-4143-87a8-0a0b37b5eebf",
      "slug": "steal-a-loaf",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-gemmell/stormrider/steal-a-loaf",
      "text": "Steal a loaf of bread and they hang you, steal a land and they'll make you king.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "David Gemmell",
        "slug": "david-gemmell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-gemmell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Stormrider",
        "slug": "stormrider",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-gemmell/stormrider"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "justice",
          "slug": "justice",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/justice"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Gemmell#Stormrider",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:57:52"
    },
    {
      "id": "9d0b2376-d446-4ae2-8f14-298ce40b90ad",
      "slug": "to-be-frank",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-chretien/my-years-as-prime-minister/to-be-frank",
      "text": "To be frank, politics is about wanting power, getting it, exercising it, and keeping it.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Jean Chretien",
        "slug": "jean-chretien",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-chretien"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "My Years as Prime Minister",
        "slug": "my-years-as-prime-minister",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-chretien/my-years-as-prime-minister"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 2,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jean_Chr%C3%A9tien#My_Years_As_Prime_Minister_(2007)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:57:51"
    },
    {
      "id": "f48e4592-a028-4d4e-a89f-2bccc1adbd66",
      "slug": "those-with-power",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/n-k-jemisin/the-kingdom-of-gods/those-with-power",
      "text": "Those with power would always find some way to exert it over those who didn’t.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "N. K. Jemisin",
        "slug": "n-k-jemisin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/n-k-jemisin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Kingdom Of Gods",
        "slug": "the-kingdom-of-gods",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/n-k-jemisin/the-kingdom-of-gods"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 494,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/N._K._Jemisin#The_Kingdom_of_Gods_(2011)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:57:49"
    },
    {
      "id": "d4366020-bbf7-4bfe-80c8-ee502fd1d908",
      "slug": "what-happened-when",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/n-k-jemisin/the-broken-kingdoms/what-happened-when",
      "text": "What happened when people who’d once possessed absolute power suddenly lost it?",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "N. K. Jemisin",
        "slug": "n-k-jemisin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/n-k-jemisin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Broken Kingdoms",
        "slug": "the-broken-kingdoms",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/n-k-jemisin/the-broken-kingdoms"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 170,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/N._K._Jemisin#The_Broken_Kingdoms_(2010)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:57:49"
    },
    {
      "id": "9c46357c-b3c4-48e8-ae2a-3ab9cafa2e7b",
      "slug": "skys-forecourt-had",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/n-k-jemisin/the-kingdom-of-gods/skys-forecourt-had",
      "text": "Sky’s forecourt had been designed by my late sister, Kurue, who had understood two key elements of the mortal psyche: they hate being reminded of their own insignificance, yet they simultaneously and instinctively expect their leaders to be overwhelmingly dominant.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "N. K. Jemisin",
        "slug": "n-k-jemisin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/n-k-jemisin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Kingdom Of Gods",
        "slug": "the-kingdom-of-gods",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/n-k-jemisin/the-kingdom-of-gods"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 119,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "leadership",
          "slug": "leadership",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/leadership"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/N._K._Jemisin#The_Kingdom_of_Gods_(2011)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:57:49"
    },
    {
      "id": "342f340a-ec11-4efa-8675-bd3841571d83",
      "slug": "but-perhaps-that",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/n-k-jemisin/the-hundred-thousand-kingdoms/but-perhaps-that",
      "text": "But perhaps that was just the way of power: no such thing as too much.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "N. K. Jemisin",
        "slug": "n-k-jemisin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/n-k-jemisin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms",
        "slug": "the-hundred-thousand-kingdoms",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/n-k-jemisin/the-hundred-thousand-kingdoms"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 61,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/N._K._Jemisin#The_Hundred_Thousand_Kingdoms_(2010)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:57:48"
    },
    {
      "id": "25384e9f-4188-4439-8513-43f33014d6fc",
      "slug": "power-broken-into",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lewis-lapham/waiting-for-the-barbarians/power-broken-into",
      "text": "Power broken into a thousand pieces can be hidden and disowned. If no individual or institution possesses the authority to act without of everybody else in the room, then nobody is at fault if anything goes wrong.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Lewis Lapham",
        "slug": "lewis-lapham",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lewis-lapham"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Waiting for the Barbarians",
        "slug": "waiting-for-the-barbarians",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lewis-lapham/waiting-for-the-barbarians"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 75,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "responsibility",
          "slug": "responsibility",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/responsibility"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lewis_H._Lapham#Waiting_For_The_Barbarians_(1997)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:57:46"
    },
    {
      "id": "5f586549-b93f-4a6f-9260-3a2f01ee0bdf",
      "slug": "honor-he-said",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lois-lowry/the-giver/honor-he-said",
      "text": "\"Honor,\" he said firmly. \"I have great honor. So will you. But you will find that is not the same as power.\"",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Lois Lowry",
        "slug": "lois-lowry",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lois-lowry"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Giver",
        "slug": "the-giver",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lois-lowry/the-giver"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 84,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "honour",
          "slug": "honour",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/honour"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Giver#Quotes",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:57:42"
    },
    {
      "id": "5081e51d-e2b0-4d0d-a10c-eb3ee203ab87",
      "slug": "every-ruler-wants",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-powers/the-stress-of-her-regard/every-ruler-wants",
      "text": "Every ruler wants to maintain the status quo.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Tim Powers",
        "slug": "tim-powers",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-powers"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Stress of Her Regard",
        "slug": "the-stress-of-her-regard",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-powers/the-stress-of-her-regard"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 170,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tim_Powers#The_Stress_of_Her_Regard_(1989)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:57:37"
    },
    {
      "id": "6106da74-a016-4634-b439-ea6512f03fc7",
      "slug": "moral-law-is-an-invention",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cormac-mccarthy/blood-meridian/moral-law-is-an-invention",
      "text": "Moral law is an invention of mankind for the disenfranchisement of the powerful in favor of the weak. Historical law subverts it at every turn. A moral view can never be proven right or wrong by any ultimate test. A man falling dead in a duel is not thought thereby to be proven in error as to his views.''' His very involvement in such a trial gives evidence of a new and broader view. The willingness of the principals to forgo further argument as the triviality which it in fact is and to petition directly the chambers of the historical absolute clearly indicates of how little moment are the opinions and of what great moment the divergences thereof. For the argument is indeed trivial, but not so the separate wills thereby made manifest.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Cormac McCarthy",
        "slug": "cormac-mccarthy",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cormac-mccarthy"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Blood Meridian",
        "slug": "blood-meridian",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cormac-mccarthy/blood-meridian"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 261,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "morality",
          "slug": "morality",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/morality"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Blood_Meridian#Quotations",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:57:21"
    },
    {
      "id": "ad5e2f77-8b8c-467f-a2b9-cadb9365ddbe",
      "slug": "politics-is-ugly",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/paolo-bacigalupi/the-windup-girl/politics-is-ugly",
      "text": "Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Paolo Bacigalupi",
        "slug": "paolo-bacigalupi",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/paolo-bacigalupi"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Windup Girl",
        "slug": "the-windup-girl",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/paolo-bacigalupi/the-windup-girl"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 280,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paolo_Bacigalupi#The_Windup_Girl_(2009)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:57:16"
    },
    {
      "id": "81aa3927-71b9-43a4-94dc-c74239f228d2",
      "slug": "he-who-enlists",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-l-heilbroner/the-worldly-philosophers/he-who-enlists",
      "text": "He who enlists a man's mind wields a power even greater than the sword or the scepter.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Robert L. Heilbroner",
        "slug": "robert-l-heilbroner",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-l-heilbroner"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Worldly Philosophers",
        "slug": "the-worldly-philosophers",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-l-heilbroner/the-worldly-philosophers"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 3,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "ideas",
          "slug": "ideas",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/ideas"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Heilbroner#The_Worldly_Philosophers_(1953)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:57:15"
    },
    {
      "id": "ec38909c-4241-48ea-a395-340e25fd7bdc",
      "slug": "they-the-government-really",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ai-weiwei/ai-weiwei/they-the-government-really",
      "text": "They [the government] really want to maintain power. At the same time, they refuse to communicate. They refuse to have good intentions. They refuse to be sincere. How can that last?",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Ai Weiwei",
        "slug": "ai-weiwei",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ai-weiwei"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Ai Weiwei",
        "slug": "ai-weiwei",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ai-weiwei/ai-weiwei"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "honesty",
          "slug": "honesty",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/honesty"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ai_Weiwei#Ai_Weiwei:_The_Dissident,_2011",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:57:07"
    },
    {
      "id": "38e1d49f-e072-4fb8-a655-dfc832caf785",
      "slug": "they-detained-me-for",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ai-weiwei/ai-weiwei/they-detained-me-for",
      "text": "They detained me for 81 days, but they never killed me. They clearly told me: 'If we were in the Cultural Revolution, you would have been killed 100 times.' They said: 'We have already improved.' I said: 'I thank you very much. Yes, you have improved. Not because you are really willing to improve yourself, but only because improvement is a matter of surviving.'",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Ai Weiwei",
        "slug": "ai-weiwei",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ai-weiwei"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Ai Weiwei",
        "slug": "ai-weiwei",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ai-weiwei/ai-weiwei"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "tyranny",
          "slug": "tyranny",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/tyranny"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ai_Weiwei#Ai_Weiwei:_%E2%80%98Shame_on_Me.%E2%80%99,_2011",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:57:06"
    },
    {
      "id": "32da8e25-1c94-4a0f-abcc-1c46efaa9f2e",
      "slug": "as-an-artist",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ai-weiwei/ai-weiwei/as-an-artist",
      "text": "As an artist, I am very familiar with how to show the details, how to transform them into a language people can understand. They [the government] know that the Internet is a strong force, unbearable for them.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Ai Weiwei",
        "slug": "ai-weiwei",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ai-weiwei"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Ai Weiwei",
        "slug": "ai-weiwei",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ai-weiwei/ai-weiwei"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "the internet",
          "slug": "the-internet",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-internet"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ai_Weiwei#Ai_Weiwei:_%E2%80%98Shame_on_Me.%E2%80%99,_2011",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:57:06"
    },
    {
      "id": "259711ea-9c9f-4d3a-ad71-57cef52b9b22",
      "slug": "there-is-a-limited",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jacques-ellul/the-technological-society/there-is-a-limited",
      "text": "...there is a limited elite that understands the secrets of their own techniques, but not necessarily of all techniques. These men are close to the seat of modern governmental power. The state is no longer founded on the 'average citizen', but on the ability and knowledge of this elite. The average man is altogether unable to penetrate technical secrets or governmental organization and consequently can exert no influence at all on the state.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Jacques Ellul",
        "slug": "jacques-ellul",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jacques-ellul"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Technological Society",
        "slug": "the-technological-society",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jacques-ellul/the-technological-society"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 274,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "technology",
          "slug": "technology",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/technology"
        },
        {
          "name": "democracy",
          "slug": "democracy",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/democracy"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jacques_Ellul#The_Technological_Society_(1954)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:57:02"
    },
    {
      "id": "050f6c35-1b67-4523-8bf9-24bd02f971f3",
      "slug": "it-is-not",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jacques-ellul/the-technological-society/it-is-not",
      "text": "It is not true that the perfection of police power is the result of the state’s Machiavellianism or of some transitory influence. The whole structure of society of society implies it, of necessity. The more we mobilize the forces of nature, the more must we mobilize men and the more do we require order.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Jacques Ellul",
        "slug": "jacques-ellul",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jacques-ellul"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Technological Society",
        "slug": "the-technological-society",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jacques-ellul/the-technological-society"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 102,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "technology",
          "slug": "technology",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/technology"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jacques_Ellul#The_Technological_Society_(1954)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:57:02"
    },
    {
      "id": "91787ffc-a56e-4073-979f-2382eaaa74d3",
      "slug": "the-serf-is-essentially",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frantz-fanon/the-wretched-of-the-earth/the-serf-is-essentially",
      "text": "The serf is essentially different from the knight, but a reference to divine right is needed to justify this difference in status.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Frantz Fanon",
        "slug": "frantz-fanon",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frantz-fanon"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Wretched of the Earth",
        "slug": "the-wretched-of-the-earth",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frantz-fanon/the-wretched-of-the-earth"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 5,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "religion",
          "slug": "religion",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/religion"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Frantz_Fanon#The_Wretched_of_the_Earth_(1961)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:57:01"
    },
    {
      "id": "ffd79733-2491-4534-85f2-1f6381105f25",
      "slug": "he-was-usually",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-mcdevitt/cauldron/he-was-usually",
      "text": "He was usually easygoing, one of those guys with little respect for authority because of a conviction that people in charge tend to do stupid things.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Jack Mcdevitt",
        "slug": "jack-mcdevitt",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-mcdevitt"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Cauldron",
        "slug": "cauldron",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-mcdevitt/cauldron"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 322,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jack_McDevitt#Cauldron_(2007)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:56:59"
    },
    {
      "id": "e6a86dac-5d45-482f-9b33-3d56bfd2b895",
      "slug": "the-problem-is-that",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-mcdevitt/the-engines-of-god/the-problem-is-that",
      "text": "The problem is that too often the only people who can act don’t want change. Power doesn’t so much corrupt as it breeds conservatism.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Jack Mcdevitt",
        "slug": "jack-mcdevitt",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-mcdevitt"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Engines Of God",
        "slug": "the-engines-of-god",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-mcdevitt/the-engines-of-god"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 356,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "change",
          "slug": "change",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/change"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jack_McDevitt#The_Engines_of_God_(1994)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:56:57"
    },
    {
      "id": "c75ee4eb-eea9-4015-8bdb-b7537bad2235",
      "slug": "how-does-it-happen",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-mcdevitt/the-engines-of-god/how-does-it-happen",
      "text": "How does it happen that the most intractable types always rise to the top?",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Jack Mcdevitt",
        "slug": "jack-mcdevitt",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-mcdevitt"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Engines Of God",
        "slug": "the-engines-of-god",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-mcdevitt/the-engines-of-god"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 81,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jack_McDevitt#The_Engines_of_God_(1994)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:56:57"
    },
    {
      "id": "e257f2ee-067e-4110-be5a-992055236705",
      "slug": "if-it-is-not",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/barbara-w-tuchman/a-distant-mirror/if-it-is-not",
      "text": "If it is not profitable for the common good that authority should be retained, it ought to be relinquished.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Barbara W. Tuchman",
        "slug": "barbara-w-tuchman",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/barbara-w-tuchman"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Distant Mirror",
        "slug": "a-distant-mirror",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/barbara-w-tuchman/a-distant-mirror"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 520,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Barbara_Tuchman#A_Distant_Mirror_(1978)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:56:53"
    },
    {
      "id": "dec1e67b-1790-420e-81b9-b2f9d218a5ed",
      "slug": "what-is-government",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/barbara-w-tuchman/a-distant-mirror/what-is-government",
      "text": "What is government but an arrangement by which the many accept the authority of the few?",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Barbara W. Tuchman",
        "slug": "barbara-w-tuchman",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/barbara-w-tuchman"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Distant Mirror",
        "slug": "a-distant-mirror",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/barbara-w-tuchman/a-distant-mirror"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 455,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Barbara_Tuchman#A_Distant_Mirror_(1978)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:56:53"
    },
    {
      "id": "2d0442a8-44c2-4e91-8587-aeaa2b1ccf31",
      "slug": "to-put-on-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/barbara-w-tuchman/a-distant-mirror/to-put-on-the",
      "text": "To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Barbara W. Tuchman",
        "slug": "barbara-w-tuchman",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/barbara-w-tuchman"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Distant Mirror",
        "slug": "a-distant-mirror",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/barbara-w-tuchman/a-distant-mirror"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 399,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Barbara_Tuchman#A_Distant_Mirror_(1978)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:56:53"
    },
    {
      "id": "4792402f-a7e9-4fdf-b87e-c58e576d4139",
      "slug": "the-system-was",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/barbara-w-tuchman/a-distant-mirror/the-system-was",
      "text": "The system was aided by the Church, whose natural interests allied it more to the great than to the meek.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Barbara W. Tuchman",
        "slug": "barbara-w-tuchman",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/barbara-w-tuchman"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Distant Mirror",
        "slug": "a-distant-mirror",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/barbara-w-tuchman/a-distant-mirror"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 173,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "the church",
          "slug": "the-church",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-church"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Barbara_Tuchman#A_Distant_Mirror_(1978)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:56:52"
    },
    {
      "id": "5a05e427-36af-4b5f-a773-c9fba86a4659",
      "slug": "he-had-intended",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson/the-boat-of-a-million-years/he-had-intended",
      "text": "He had intended to say that such was the nature of power. Seizing it and holding it were alike filthy.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Poul Anderson",
        "slug": "poul-anderson",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Boat of a Million Years",
        "slug": "the-boat-of-a-million-years",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson/the-boat-of-a-million-years"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 106,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Poul_Anderson#The_Boat_of_a_Million_Years_(1989)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:56:47"
    },
    {
      "id": "7a1d8e30-4467-4f05-9517-284efa5426a7",
      "slug": "do-you-think",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson/the-long-way-home/do-you-think",
      "text": "Do you think maybe I want power for myself? That’s for fools who want to command other fools.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Poul Anderson",
        "slug": "poul-anderson",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Long Way Home",
        "slug": "the-long-way-home",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson/the-long-way-home"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 57,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "stupidity",
          "slug": "stupidity",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/stupidity"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Poul_Anderson#The_Long_Way_Home_(1955)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:56:43"
    },
    {
      "id": "f6d7568f-90f5-48b1-8104-8af97c4dbb7b",
      "slug": "i-name-you",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/rhythm-of-war/i-name-you",
      "text": "I name you idiot for playing with powers you only presume to understand.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Brandon Sanderson",
        "slug": "brandon-sanderson",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Rhythm of War",
        "slug": "rhythm-of-war",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/rhythm-of-war"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 999,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "stupidity",
          "slug": "stupidity",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/stupidity"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Brandon_Sanderson#Rhythm_of_War_(2020)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:56:40"
    },
    {
      "id": "5cd67fdf-118d-4ddd-aaf7-c5fecd8a5945",
      "slug": "order-was-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/oathbringer/order-was-the",
      "text": "Order was the very substance of rule. If things were organized, control could be asserted.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Brandon Sanderson",
        "slug": "brandon-sanderson",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Oathbringer",
        "slug": "oathbringer",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/oathbringer"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 972,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Brandon_Sanderson#Oathbringer_(2017)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:56:39"
    },
    {
      "id": "fb0207f7-9149-4f56-b80d-e4834c69dbe8",
      "slug": "you-make-it-sound",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/oathbringer/you-make-it-sound",
      "text": "“You make it sound like having the power to change the world is a bad thing.”\n\n“Bad? No. Abhorrent, depressing, ghastly. Having power is a terrible burden, the worst thing imaginable, except for every other alternative.”",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Brandon Sanderson",
        "slug": "brandon-sanderson",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Oathbringer",
        "slug": "oathbringer",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/oathbringer"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 683,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "responsibility",
          "slug": "responsibility",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/responsibility"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Brandon_Sanderson#Oathbringer_(2017)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:56:38"
    },
    {
      "id": "da991df3-3c55-475d-9ccc-d5f09b17b9ac",
      "slug": "morality-is-an-axis",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/oathbringer/morality-is-an-axis",
      "text": "“Morality is an axis that doesn’t interest us,” Mraize said calmly. “Only loyalty and power are relevant, for morality is as ephemeral as the changing weather. It depends upon the angle from which you view it.”",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Brandon Sanderson",
        "slug": "brandon-sanderson",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Oathbringer",
        "slug": "oathbringer",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/oathbringer"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 231,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "morality",
          "slug": "morality",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/morality"
        },
        {
          "name": "loyalty",
          "slug": "loyalty",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/loyalty"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Brandon_Sanderson#Oathbringer_(2017)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:56:38"
    },
    {
      "id": "c36857c1-d470-47c8-b188-d04bc572b74c",
      "slug": "these-are-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/oathbringer/these-are-the",
      "text": "These are the men…well, these are the men who actually change the world. And they terrify me. For men never see as far as they think they do.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Brandon Sanderson",
        "slug": "brandon-sanderson",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Oathbringer",
        "slug": "oathbringer",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/oathbringer"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 682,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "pride",
          "slug": "pride",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/pride"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Brandon_Sanderson#Oathbringer_(2017)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:56:38"
    },
    {
      "id": "3cf295f5-adfa-440f-9cf9-68e270351a08",
      "slug": "they-all-stretched",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/oathbringer/they-all-stretched",
      "text": "“They all stretched farther and farther until they collapsed. In all the history of mankind, has any conqueror decided they had enough? Has any man just said, ‘This is good. This is what I wanted,’ and gone home?”",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Brandon Sanderson",
        "slug": "brandon-sanderson",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Oathbringer",
        "slug": "oathbringer",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/oathbringer"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 213,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "greed",
          "slug": "greed",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/greed"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Brandon_Sanderson#Oathbringer_(2017)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:56:38"
    },
    {
      "id": "1430e82f-5b97-4b3b-9066-23d794e3398f",
      "slug": "power-is-a-knife",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/oathbringer/power-is-a-knife",
      "text": "“Power is a knife,” Wit said, taking his seat. “A terrible, dangerous knife that can’t be wielded without cutting yourself. We joked about stupidity, but in reality most people aren’t stupid. Many are simply frustrated at how little control they have over their lives. They lash out. Sometimes in spectacular ways…”",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Brandon Sanderson",
        "slug": "brandon-sanderson",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Oathbringer",
        "slug": "oathbringer",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/oathbringer"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 683,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Brandon_Sanderson#Oathbringer_(2017)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:56:38"
    },
    {
      "id": "96b085f9-d33e-468f-8d23-f718870a91f5",
      "slug": "men-in-power",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/the-way-of-kings/men-in-power",
      "text": "“Men in power always pretend things like virtue, or divine guidance, some kind of mandate to ‘protect’ the rest of us. If we believe that the Almighty put them were they are, it’s easier for us to swallow what they do to us.”",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Brandon Sanderson",
        "slug": "brandon-sanderson",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Way of Kings",
        "slug": "the-way-of-kings",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/the-way-of-kings"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 832,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "religion",
          "slug": "religion",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/religion"
        },
        {
          "name": "manipulation",
          "slug": "manipulation",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/manipulation"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Brandon_Sanderson#The_Way_of_Kings_(2010)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:56:35"
    },
    {
      "id": "81a37218-1cc4-48fb-bcff-53af9eb8e0ac",
      "slug": "thats-horrible-kaladin",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/the-way-of-kings/thats-horrible-kaladin",
      "text": "“That’s horrible,” Kaladin said.\n\n“I doubt many would disagree. But I mention these horrors for a purpose. You see, it has been my experience that no matter where you go, you will find some who abuse their power.” He shrugged. “Eye color is not so odd a method, compared to many others I have seen. If you were to overthrow the lighteyes and place yourselves in power, Moash, I doubt that the world would be a very different place. The abuses would still happen. Simply to other people.”",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Brandon Sanderson",
        "slug": "brandon-sanderson",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Way of Kings",
        "slug": "the-way-of-kings",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/the-way-of-kings"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 652,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Brandon_Sanderson#The_Way_of_Kings_(2010)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:56:35"
    },
    {
      "id": "7d95faf4-6bee-4c61-9333-2b4a772a63c7",
      "slug": "they-were-not",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/the-way-of-kings/they-were-not",
      "text": "They were not demons, they were just men who had too much power and not enough sense.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Brandon Sanderson",
        "slug": "brandon-sanderson",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Way of Kings",
        "slug": "the-way-of-kings",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/the-way-of-kings"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 153,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "stupidity",
          "slug": "stupidity",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/stupidity"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Brandon_Sanderson#The_Way_of_Kings_(2010)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:56:35"
    },
    {
      "id": "3624a36d-3ac8-4520-b860-ab903a9eb75a",
      "slug": "men-were-not",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/the-way-of-kings/men-were-not",
      "text": "Men were not in command of their own religious paths; the priests control the doctrine, and few members of the Church were allowed to know theology. They were taught to follow the priests. Not the Almighty or the Heralds, but the priests.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Brandon Sanderson",
        "slug": "brandon-sanderson",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Way of Kings",
        "slug": "the-way-of-kings",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/the-way-of-kings"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 285,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "religion",
          "slug": "religion",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/religion"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Brandon_Sanderson#The_Way_of_Kings_(2010)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:56:35"
    },
    {
      "id": "a57c0e73-b625-441a-833c-98284a6eec6f",
      "slug": "hrathen-turned-to-dial",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/elantris/hrathen-turned-to-dial",
      "text": "Hrathen turned to Dial. “The first step in taking control of a nation, Arteth, is the simplest. You find someone to hate.”",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Brandon Sanderson",
        "slug": "brandon-sanderson",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Elantris",
        "slug": "elantris",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/brandon-sanderson/elantris"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 86,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "hatred",
          "slug": "hatred",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hatred"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Brandon_Sanderson#Elantris_(2005)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:56:33"
    },
    {
      "id": "9f3ee090-7da5-4daf-9c80-8cb0e8c3b9a9",
      "slug": "if-a-person",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/imre-kertesz/detective-story/if-a-person",
      "text": "If a person resolves to fight, he ought to know what he is fighting for. Otherwise it makes no sense. A person usually fights against a power in order to gain power himself. Or else because the power in question is threatening his life.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Imre Kertész",
        "slug": "imre-kertesz",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/imre-kertesz"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Detective Story",
        "slug": "detective-story",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/imre-kertesz/detective-story"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 69,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Imre_Kert%C3%A9sz#Detective_Story_(2008)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:56:30"
    },
    {
      "id": "9dadcbfd-1bd7-4171-b3b9-c21263dd6651",
      "slug": "the-state-is-always",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/imre-kertesz/liquidation/the-state-is-always",
      "text": "The state is always the same. The only reason it financed literature up till now was in order to liquidate it. Giving state support to literature is the state's sneaky way for the state liquidation of literature.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Imre Kertész",
        "slug": "imre-kertesz",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/imre-kertesz"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Liquidation",
        "slug": "liquidation",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/imre-kertesz/liquidation"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "literature",
          "slug": "literature",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/literature"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Imre_Kert%C3%A9sz#Liquidation_(2003)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:56:30"
    },
    {
      "id": "a290eb09-d01c-4ca0-95ad-f23d64b2b827",
      "slug": "power-isnt-doing",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jodi-picoult/the-storyteller/power-isnt-doing",
      "text": "Power isn't doing something terrible to someone who's weaker than you, … It's having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Jodi Picoult",
        "slug": "jodi-picoult",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jodi-picoult"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Storyteller",
        "slug": "the-storyteller",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jodi-picoult/the-storyteller"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "kindness",
          "slug": "kindness",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/kindness"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jodi_Picoult#The_Storyteller_(2013)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:56:24"
    },
    {
      "id": "5e8fc7c9-6ef5-4e38-82c7-a514b0e5e0eb",
      "slug": "i-asked-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alasdair-gray/unlikely-stories-mostly/i-asked-the",
      "text": "I asked the headmaster of literature, \"Why are there so many headmasters and so few poets? Is it easier for you to train your own kind than ours?\" He said, \"No. The emperor needs all the headmasters he can get. If a quarter of his people were headmasters he would be perfectly happy. But more than two poets would tear his kingdom apart.\"",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Alasdair Gray",
        "slug": "alasdair-gray",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alasdair-gray"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Unlikely Stories, Mostly",
        "slug": "unlikely-stories-mostly",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alasdair-gray/unlikely-stories-mostly"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 88,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "education",
          "slug": "education",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/education"
        },
        {
          "name": "poetry",
          "slug": "poetry",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/poetry"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alasdair_Gray#Unlikely_Stories,_Mostly_(1983)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:56:21"
    },
    {
      "id": "0f7f9600-5817-498b-bd89-ba708c7f6c28",
      "slug": "technology-it-is-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-suarez/daemon/technology-it-is-the",
      "text": "\"Technology. It is the physical manifestation of the human will. It began with simple tools. Then came the wheel, and on it goes to this very day. Civilizations rise and fall based on technological innovation. Bronze falls to iron. Iron falls to steel. Steel falls to gunpowder. Gunpowder falls to circuitry.\" Sobol looked toward the camera again. \"For those among you who don't understand what's happening, let me explain: the Great Diffusion has begun—an era when the nation state dissolves. Technology will cause this. As countries compete for markets in the global economy, diffusion of high technology will accelerate. It will result in a diffusion of power. And diffusion of power will make countries an ineffective organizing principle. At first, marginal governments will fail. Larger states will not be equipped to intercede effectively. These lawless regions will become breeding grounds for international crime and terrorism. Threats to centralized authority will multiply. Centralized power will be defenseless against these distributed threats. You have already experienced the leading edge of this wave.\"",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Daniel Suárez",
        "slug": "daniel-suarez",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-suarez"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Daemon",
        "slug": "daemon",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-suarez/daemon"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "technology",
          "slug": "technology",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/technology"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Daniel_Suarez#Daemon_(2006)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:56:19"
    },
    {
      "id": "3c5c3ea2-ddc2-4f97-a387-fd00ea1ca456",
      "slug": "harry-dresden-you",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jim-butcher/proven-guilty/harry-dresden-you",
      "text": "Harry Dresden: You can never tell how someone is going to handle power — not until you hand it to them and see what they do with it.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Jim Butcher",
        "slug": "jim-butcher",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jim-butcher"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Proven Guilty",
        "slug": "proven-guilty",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jim-butcher/proven-guilty"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jim_Butcher#Proven_Guilty_(2006)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:56:16"
    },
    {
      "id": "bf2bf267-fcc9-4206-9fb5-25d7d8a088a7",
      "slug": "he-said-let-me-get",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-brunner/the-stone-that-never-came-down/he-said-let-me-get",
      "text": "He said—let me get this right—he said that among the chief reasons we can’t cope with the consequence of our own ingenuity is that whenever a genuinely open-minded teacher tries to pass that attitude on to his pupils, the entrenched authorities grow frightened and shut his mouth.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "John Brunner",
        "slug": "john-brunner",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-brunner"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Stone That Never Came Down",
        "slug": "the-stone-that-never-came-down",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-brunner/the-stone-that-never-came-down"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 77,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "education",
          "slug": "education",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/education"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Brunner#The_Stone_That_Never_Came_Down_(1973)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:56:11"
    },
    {
      "id": "840fe92c-2474-4e03-b3df-cd3f60cc4069",
      "slug": "well-intentioned-men-dont",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-brunner/the-jagged-orbit/well-intentioned-men-dont",
      "text": "Well-intentioned men don’t run for office any more! They have too much sense to expose themselves to assassination, and only delusible idiots like our current chief executive can be persuaded to don the robes of high office. Nice guys don’t crave power.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "John Brunner",
        "slug": "john-brunner",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-brunner"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Jagged Orbit",
        "slug": "the-jagged-orbit",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-brunner/the-jagged-orbit"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 143,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Brunner#The_Jagged_Orbit_(1969)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:56:10"
    },
    {
      "id": "83d467c1-86b0-42d1-90b6-fba17b991a81",
      "slug": "its-common-platitude",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-brunner/the-jagged-orbit/its-common-platitude",
      "text": "It’s common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it were on your side rather than theirs.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "John Brunner",
        "slug": "john-brunner",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-brunner"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Jagged Orbit",
        "slug": "the-jagged-orbit",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-brunner/the-jagged-orbit"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 49,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "knowledge",
          "slug": "knowledge",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/knowledge"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Brunner#The_Jagged_Orbit_(1969)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:56:10"
    },
    {
      "id": "9c952287-eb8d-4448-b30b-67b1777d9048",
      "slug": "a-crown-is-a-pitiless",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lloyd-alexander/the-high-king/a-crown-is-a-pitiless",
      "text": "A crown is a pitiless master, harsher than the staff of a pig-keeper; while a staff bears up, a crown weighs down, beyond the strength of any man to wear it lightly.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Lloyd Alexander",
        "slug": "lloyd-alexander",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lloyd-alexander"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The High King",
        "slug": "the-high-king",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lloyd-alexander/the-high-king"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "responsibility",
          "slug": "responsibility",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/responsibility"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lloyd_Alexander#Book_V_:_The_High_King_(1968)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:56:08"
    },
    {
      "id": "779daedb-f23e-43b3-a475-754c5bcda1c6",
      "slug": "a-crown-is-more",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lloyd-alexander/the-high-king/a-crown-is-more",
      "text": "A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Lloyd Alexander",
        "slug": "lloyd-alexander",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lloyd-alexander"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The High King",
        "slug": "the-high-king",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lloyd-alexander/the-high-king"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lloyd_Alexander#Book_V_:_The_High_King_(1968)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:56:08"
    },
    {
      "id": "6ea7164b-e692-48d5-9f48-f978f3afa572",
      "slug": "there-is-a-moral",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chinua-achebe/there-was-a-country/there-is-a-moral",
      "text": "There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Chinua Achebe",
        "slug": "chinua-achebe",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chinua-achebe"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "There Was a Country",
        "slug": "there-was-a-country",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chinua-achebe/there-was-a-country"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "morality",
          "slug": "morality",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/morality"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Chinua_Achebe#There_Was_a_Country:_A_Personal_History_of_Biafra_(2012)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:55:57"
    },
    {
      "id": "b7253de5-1bc2-4cb8-bd9b-5da8083d33ee",
      "slug": "in-the-end",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chinua-achebe/home-and-exile/in-the-end",
      "text": "In the end I began to understand. There is such a thing as absolute power over narrative. Those who secure this privilege for themselves can arrange stories about others pretty much where, and as, they like. Just as in corrupt, totalitarian regimes, those who exercise power over others can do anything.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Chinua Achebe",
        "slug": "chinua-achebe",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chinua-achebe"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Home and Exile",
        "slug": "home-and-exile",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chinua-achebe/home-and-exile"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "storytelling",
          "slug": "storytelling",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/storytelling"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Chinua_Achebe#Home_and_Exile_(2000)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:55:56"
    },
    {
      "id": "ddadf9a1-420d-48b0-85f8-657d14fae1ff",
      "slug": "in-the-year",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/a-childs-history-of-england/in-the-year",
      "text": "In the year of our Lord one thousand one hundred and eighty-nine, Richard of the Lion Heart succeeded to the throne of King Henry the Second, whose paternal heart he had done so much to break. He had been, as we have seen, a rebel from his boyhood; but, the moment he became a king against whom others might rebel, he found out that rebellion was a great wickedness. In the heat of this pious discovery, he punished all the leading people who had befriended him against his father. He could scarcely have done anything that would have been a better instance of his real nature, or a better warning to fawners and parasites not to trust in lion-hearted princes.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Charles Dickens",
        "slug": "charles-dickens",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Child's History of England",
        "slug": "a-childs-history-of-england",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/a-childs-history-of-england"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "hypocrisy",
          "slug": "hypocrisy",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hypocrisy"
        },
        {
          "name": "rebellion",
          "slug": "rebellion",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/rebellion"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Child's_History_of_England#Quotes",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:55:53"
    },
    {
      "id": "a201daca-18bf-4635-992f-388a71aac22a",
      "slug": "courtiers-are-not",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/a-childs-history-of-england/courtiers-are-not",
      "text": "Courtiers are not only eager to laugh when the King laughs, but they really do enjoy a laugh against a Favourite.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Charles Dickens",
        "slug": "charles-dickens",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Child's History of England",
        "slug": "a-childs-history-of-england",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/a-childs-history-of-england"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "flattery",
          "slug": "flattery",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/flattery"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Child's_History_of_England#Quotes",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:55:53"
    },
    {
      "id": "eec34080-9fd9-4595-aba6-7d40f400596c",
      "slug": "power-over-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/donella-h-meadows/thinking-in-systems/power-over-the",
      "text": "Power over the rules is real power. That's why lobbyists congregate when Congress writes laws, and why the Supreme Court, which interprets and delineates the Constitution – the rules for writing the rules – has even more power than Congress. If you want to understand the deepest malfunctions of systems, pay attention to the rules and to who has power over them.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Donella H. Meadows",
        "slug": "donella-h-meadows",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/donella-h-meadows"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Thinking in Systems",
        "slug": "thinking-in-systems",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/donella-h-meadows/thinking-in-systems"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 158,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "law",
          "slug": "law",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/law"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Donella_Meadows#Thinking_in_Systems:_A_Primer_(2008)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:55:50"
    },
    {
      "id": "6d0d3be6-708e-4ad6-8d39-5f4ceed1f8e2",
      "slug": "even-people-within",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/donella-h-meadows/thinking-in-systems/even-people-within",
      "text": "Even people within systems don't often recognize what whole-system goal they are serving. \"To make profits\", most corporations would say, but that's just a rule, a necessary condition to stay in the game. What is the point of the game? To grow, to increase market share, to bring the world (customers, suppliers, regulators) more and more under the control of the corporation, so that its operations becomes ever more shielded from uncertainty.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Donella H. Meadows",
        "slug": "donella-h-meadows",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/donella-h-meadows"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Thinking in Systems",
        "slug": "thinking-in-systems",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/donella-h-meadows/thinking-in-systems"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 161,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "business",
          "slug": "business",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/business"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Donella_Meadows#Thinking_in_Systems:_A_Primer_(2008)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:55:50"
    },
    {
      "id": "51fc9305-3335-42d8-bb0f-6cd312e32319",
      "slug": "youve-seen-how",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/donella-h-meadows/thinking-in-systems/youve-seen-how",
      "text": "You've seen how information holds system together and how delayed, biased, scattered, or missing information can make feedback loops malfunction. Decision-makers can respond to information they don't have, can't respond accurately to information that is inaccurate, and can't respond in a timely way to information that is late. I would guess that most of what goes wrong in systems goes wrong because of biased, late, or missing information. [...] Information is power.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Donella H. Meadows",
        "slug": "donella-h-meadows",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/donella-h-meadows"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Thinking in Systems",
        "slug": "thinking-in-systems",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/donella-h-meadows/thinking-in-systems"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 173,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "information",
          "slug": "information",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/information"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Donella_Meadows#Thinking_in_Systems:_A_Primer_(2008)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:55:50"
    },
    {
      "id": "82f375f5-aae6-4ed7-b728-33169b9c2053",
      "slug": "the-purpose-of-history",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-crichton/timeline/the-purpose-of-history",
      "text": "The purpose of history is to explain the present—to say why the world around us is the way it is. History tells us what is important in our world, and how it came to be. It tells us why the things we value are the things we should value. And it tells us what is to be ignored, or discarded. That is true power—profound power. The power to define a whole society.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Michael Crichton",
        "slug": "michael-crichton",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-crichton"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Timeline",
        "slug": "timeline",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-crichton/timeline"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 480,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "history",
          "slug": "history",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/history"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#Timeline_(1999)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:55:49"
    },
    {
      "id": "c5793705-9b2a-436b-823f-5f9281f05658",
      "slug": "respect-authority-while",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/randy-pausch/the-last-lecture/respect-authority-while",
      "text": "Respect authority while questioning it.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Randy Pausch",
        "slug": "randy-pausch",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/randy-pausch"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Last Lecture",
        "slug": "the-last-lecture",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/randy-pausch/the-last-lecture"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "rebellion",
          "slug": "rebellion",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/rebellion"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Randy_Pausch#The_Last_Lecture_(2007)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:55:46"
    },
    {
      "id": "fecbfe3c-1a1d-4dc6-b9f9-a06a30630a28",
      "slug": "the-tyrant-grinds",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/emily-bronte/wuthering-heights/the-tyrant-grinds",
      "text": "The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Emily Brontë",
        "slug": "emily-bronte",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/emily-bronte"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Wuthering Heights",
        "slug": "wuthering-heights",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/emily-bronte/wuthering-heights"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "tyranny",
          "slug": "tyranny",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/tyranny"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wuthering_Heights#Quotes",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:55:43"
    },
    {
      "id": "e1d7dfcb-212e-4d3c-81b6-b464466574ab",
      "slug": "all-the-powers",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-jefferson/notes-on-the-state-of-virginia/all-the-powers",
      "text": "All the powers of government, legislative, executive, and judiciary, result to the legislative body. The concentrating these in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one. . . . As little will it avail us that they are chosen by ourselves. An elective despotism was not the government we fought for; but one which should not only be founded on free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy, as that no one could transcend their legal limits, without being effectually checked and restrained by others.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Thomas Jefferson",
        "slug": "thomas-jefferson",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-jefferson"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Notes on the State of Virginia",
        "slug": "notes-on-the-state-of-virginia",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-jefferson/notes-on-the-state-of-virginia"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 128,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "democracy",
          "slug": "democracy",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/democracy"
        },
        {
          "name": "tyranny",
          "slug": "tyranny",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/tyranny"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Notes_on_the_State_of_Virginia#Query_XIII",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:55:39"
    },
    {
      "id": "dd889fd5-8366-4a9d-87d3-9810e666eca3",
      "slug": "it-is-very",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/erich-maria-remarque/all-quiet-on-the-western-front/it-is-very",
      "text": "It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is often brought on by small men. They are so much more energetic and uncompromising than the big fellows.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Erich Maria Remarque",
        "slug": "erich-maria-remarque",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/erich-maria-remarque"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "All Quiet on the Western Front",
        "slug": "all-quiet-on-the-western-front",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/erich-maria-remarque/all-quiet-on-the-western-front"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 10,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "humor",
          "slug": "humor",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor"
        },
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Erich_Maria_Remarque#All_Quiet_on_the_Western_Front_(1929)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:55:33"
    },
    {
      "id": "773580ba-6a68-4073-b1be-3cbeb16f88bb",
      "slug": "a-man-of-limited",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stefan-zweig/beware-of-pity/a-man-of-limited",
      "text": "A man of limited vision is hard to bear with in any sphere in which he is invested with power, but intolerable in the army.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Stefan Zweig",
        "slug": "stefan-zweig",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stefan-zweig"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Beware of Pity",
        "slug": "beware-of-pity",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stefan-zweig/beware-of-pity"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "stupidity",
          "slug": "stupidity",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/stupidity"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stefan_Zweig#Beware_of_Pity_(1939)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:55:29"
    },
    {
      "id": "e02d32a1-f72a-4275-9acf-acb4eb75eee7",
      "slug": "it-takes-very",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cormac-mccarthy/no-country-for-old-men/it-takes-very",
      "text": "It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Cormac McCarthy",
        "slug": "cormac-mccarthy",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cormac-mccarthy"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "No Country for Old Men",
        "slug": "no-country-for-old-men",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cormac-mccarthy/no-country-for-old-men"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "evil",
          "slug": "evil",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/evil"
        },
        {
          "name": "kindness",
          "slug": "kindness",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/kindness"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/No_Country_for_Old_Men#Quotes",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:55:19"
    },
    {
      "id": "12a58239-99ec-4587-adec-24b86223fe43",
      "slug": "during-her-first",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/neal-stephenson/the-diamond-age/during-her-first",
      "text": "During her first few weeks in Supplementary Curriculum she had been frightened; in fact she had been surprised at the level of her own fear and had come to realize that Authority, even when it refrained from violence, could be as disturbing a specter as anything she had seen in her earlier years.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Neal Stephenson",
        "slug": "neal-stephenson",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/neal-stephenson"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Diamond Age",
        "slug": "the-diamond-age",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/neal-stephenson/the-diamond-age"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "fear",
          "slug": "fear",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age#Part_the_Second",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:55:12"
    },
    {
      "id": "2c469d7f-3b5c-4f43-b368-d622bc8622bf",
      "slug": "but-in-all",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/miles-franklin/my-brilliant-career/but-in-all",
      "text": "But in all the wide world there was not a soul to hold out a hand to me, and I said bitterly, \"There is no good in the world.\" In softer moods I said, \"Ah, the tangle of it! Those who have the heart to help have not the power, and those who have the power have not the heart.\"",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Miles Franklin",
        "slug": "miles-franklin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/miles-franklin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "My Brilliant Career",
        "slug": "my-brilliant-career",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/miles-franklin/my-brilliant-career"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "kindness",
          "slug": "kindness",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/kindness"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Miles_Franklin#My_Brilliant_Career_(1901)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:54:53"
    },
    {
      "id": "c7c9600f-51d0-433f-b5a8-c65e76da4764",
      "slug": "according-to-usage",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-berger/ways-of-seeing/according-to-usage",
      "text": "According to usage and conventions which are at last being questioned but have by no means been overcome, the social presence of a woman is different in kind from that of a man. A man’s presence is dependent upon the promise of power which he embodies. If the promise is large and credible his presence is striking. If it is small or incredible, he is found to have little presence. The promised power may be moral, physical, temperamental, economic, social, sexual – but its object is always exterior to the man. A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you. His presence may be fabricated, in the sense that he pretends to be capable of what he is not. But the pretence is always towards a power which he exercises on others.\n\nBy contrast, a woman’s presence expresses her own attitude to herself, and defines what can and cannot be done to her. Her presence is manifest in her gestures, voice, opinions, expressions, clothes, chosen surroundings, taste – indeed there is nothing she can do which does not contribute to her presence. Presence for a woman is so intrinsic to her person that men tend to think of it as an almost physical emanation, a kind of heat or smell or aura.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "John Berger",
        "slug": "john-berger",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-berger"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Ways of Seeing",
        "slug": "ways-of-seeing",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-berger/ways-of-seeing"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "women",
          "slug": "women",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/women"
        },
        {
          "name": "masculinity",
          "slug": "masculinity",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/masculinity"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Berger#Ways_of_Seeing_(1972)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:54:39"
    },
    {
      "id": "336c5e7b-cad1-4ef3-be01-7c3e6d77854a",
      "slug": "some-paradox-of-our",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lionel-trilling/the-liberal-imagination/some-paradox-of-our",
      "text": "Some paradox of our natures leads us, when once we have made our fellow men the objects of our enlightened interest, to go on to make them the objects of our pity, then of our wisdom, ultimately of our coercion.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Lionel Trilling",
        "slug": "lionel-trilling",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lionel-trilling"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Liberal Imagination",
        "slug": "the-liberal-imagination",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lionel-trilling/the-liberal-imagination"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "empathy",
          "slug": "empathy",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/empathy"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lionel_Trilling#The_Liberal_Imagination_(1950)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:54:29"
    },
    {
      "id": "18263a4d-344c-448d-baf2-d6166a94bbe2",
      "slug": "to-wheedle-and",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/anne-bronte/the-tenant-of-wildfell-hall/to-wheedle-and",
      "text": "To wheedle and coax is safer than to command.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Anne Brontë",
        "slug": "anne-bronte",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/anne-bronte"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall",
        "slug": "the-tenant-of-wildfell-hall",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/anne-bronte/the-tenant-of-wildfell-hall"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "manipulation",
          "slug": "manipulation",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/manipulation"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anne_Bront%C3%AB#The_Tenant_of_Wildfell_Hall_(1848)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:54:28"
    },
    {
      "id": "cbaec88b-c005-486e-905e-9c1f45c24b95",
      "slug": "it-is-undeniably",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/r-a-salvatore/servant-of-the-shard-dungeons-dragons/it-is-undeniably",
      "text": "\"It is undeniably beautiful, do you not agree?\" Jarlaxle asked, looking back at the soaring cathedral, with its tall spires, soaring buttresses, and great, colored windows.\n\n\"The mask of a god\", Entreri replied sourly.\n\n\"The mask or the face?\" asked the always-surprising Jarlaxle.\n\nEntreri stared hard at his companion, and back at the towering cathedral. \"The mask\", he said, \"or perhaps the illusion, concocted by those who seek to elevate themselves above all others and have not the skills to do so\".\n\nJarlaxle looked at him curiously.\n\n\"A man inferior with the blade or with his thoughts can still so elevate himself\", Entreri explained curtly, \"if he can impart the belief that some god or other speaks through him. It is the greatest deception in all the world, and one embraced by kings and lords, while minor lying thieves on the streets of Calimport and other cities lose their tongues for so attempting to coax the purses of others\".\n\nThat struck Jarlaxle as the most poignant and revealing insight he had yet pried from the mouth of the elusive Artemis Entreri, a great clue as to who this man truly was.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "R. A. Salvatore",
        "slug": "r-a-salvatore",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/r-a-salvatore"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Servant of the Shard: Dungeons & Dragons",
        "slug": "servant-of-the-shard-dungeons-dragons",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/r-a-salvatore/servant-of-the-shard-dungeons-dragons"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "religion",
          "slug": "religion",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/religion"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/R._A._Salvatore#Servant_of_the_Shard",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:54:23"
    },
    {
      "id": "6ba30adc-5930-4e67-9439-d5c94627737f",
      "slug": "power-is-always",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/r-a-salvatore/servant-of-the-shard-dungeons-dragons/power-is-always",
      "text": "\"Power is always a relative concept\".—the illithid Yharaskrik",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "R. A. Salvatore",
        "slug": "r-a-salvatore",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/r-a-salvatore"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Servant of the Shard: Dungeons & Dragons",
        "slug": "servant-of-the-shard-dungeons-dragons",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/r-a-salvatore/servant-of-the-shard-dungeons-dragons"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/R._A._Salvatore#Servant_of_the_Shard",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:54:23"
    },
    {
      "id": "e511e2eb-9944-4a5f-b93d-8d28ff7e9ea9",
      "slug": "sometimes-the-lion",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-david-roberts/shantaram/sometimes-the-lion",
      "text": "Sometimes the lion must roar, just to remind the horse of his fear.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Gregory David Roberts",
        "slug": "gregory-david-roberts",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-david-roberts"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Shantaram",
        "slug": "shantaram",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-david-roberts/shantaram"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "fear",
          "slug": "fear",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Shantaram#Quotes",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:54:21"
    },
    {
      "id": "6120d749-a488-444c-a216-ab6c88055d00",
      "slug": "the-only-force",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-david-roberts/shantaram/the-only-force",
      "text": "The only force more ruthless and cynical than the business of big politics is the politics of big business.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Gregory David Roberts",
        "slug": "gregory-david-roberts",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-david-roberts"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Shantaram",
        "slug": "shantaram",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-david-roberts/shantaram"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Shantaram#Quotes",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:54:21"
    },
    {
      "id": "8080b077-8b7e-4054-ad20-543409cca31d",
      "slug": "we-shall-say",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henri-barbusse/under-fire/we-shall-say",
      "text": "\"We shall say to ourselves,\" says one, \"'After all, why do we make war?' We don't know at all why, but we can say who we make it for. We shall be forced to see that if every nation every day brings the fresh bodies of fifteen hundred young men to the God of War to be lacerated, it's for the pleasure of a few ringleaders that we could easily count; that if whole nations go to slaughter marshaled in armies in order that the gold-striped caste may write their princely names in history, so that other gilded people of the same rank can contrive more business, and expand in the way of employees and shops — and we shall see, as soon as we open our eyes, that the divisions between mankind are not what we thought, and those one did believe in are not divisions.\"",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Henri Barbusse",
        "slug": "henri-barbusse",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henri-barbusse"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Under Fire",
        "slug": "under-fire",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henri-barbusse/under-fire"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "war",
          "slug": "war",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henri_Barbusse#Ch._24_-_The_Dawn",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:54:18"
    },
    {
      "id": "0439520e-f1e1-4cca-a696-51fa224b020e",
      "slug": "power-doesnt-have",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ralph-ellison/invisible-man/power-doesnt-have",
      "text": "Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Ralph Ellison",
        "slug": "ralph-ellison",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ralph-ellison"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Invisible Man",
        "slug": "invisible-man",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ralph-ellison/invisible-man"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "self-confidence",
          "slug": "self-confidence",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/self-confidence"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ralph_Ellison#Invisible_Man_(1952)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:54:14"
    },
    {
      "id": "f0622617-2d39-478b-a0c8-463cd999b537",
      "slug": "the-benefit-of-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-godwin/enquiry-concerning-political-justice/the-benefit-of-the",
      "text": "The benefit of the governed is made to lie on one side and the benefit of the governors on the other.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "William Godwin",
        "slug": "william-godwin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-godwin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Enquiry Concerning Political Justice",
        "slug": "enquiry-concerning-political-justice",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-godwin/enquiry-concerning-political-justice"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Godwin#Enquiry_Concerning_Political_Justice_(1793)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:54:09"
    },
    {
      "id": "afc07025-c290-44a2-92f3-1794106b6724",
      "slug": "privilege-is-a-regulation",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-godwin/enquiry-concerning-political-justice/privilege-is-a-regulation",
      "text": "Privilege is a regulation rendering a few men, and those only, by the accident of their birth, eligible to certain situations. It kills all liberal ambition in the rest of mankind, by opposing to it an apparently insurmountable bar. It diminishes it in the favored class itself, by showing them the principal qualification as indefeasibly theirs. Privilege entitles a favored few to engross to themselves gratifications which the system of the universe left at large to all her sons; it puts into the hands of those few the means of oppression against the rest of their species; it fill them witth vain-glory, and affords them every incitement to insolence and a lofty disregard to the feeling and interests of others.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "William Godwin",
        "slug": "william-godwin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-godwin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Enquiry Concerning Political Justice",
        "slug": "enquiry-concerning-political-justice",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-godwin/enquiry-concerning-political-justice"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "ambition",
          "slug": "ambition",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/ambition"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Godwin#Enquiry_Concerning_Political_Justice_(1793)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:54:09"
    },
    {
      "id": "81068d16-128e-46a1-8c3e-8014e727a3bc",
      "slug": "ministers-and-favorites",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-godwin/enquiry-concerning-political-justice/ministers-and-favorites",
      "text": "Ministers and favorites are a sort of people who have a state prisoner in their custody, the whole management of whose understanding and actions they can easily engross.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "William Godwin",
        "slug": "william-godwin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-godwin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Enquiry Concerning Political Justice",
        "slug": "enquiry-concerning-political-justice",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-godwin/enquiry-concerning-political-justice"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "manipulation",
          "slug": "manipulation",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/manipulation"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Godwin#Enquiry_Concerning_Political_Justice_(1793)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:54:09"
    },
    {
      "id": "73884417-f98f-4718-b173-154015b05167",
      "slug": "ministers-become-a-sort",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-godwin/enquiry-concerning-political-justice/ministers-become-a-sort",
      "text": "Ministers become a sort of miniature kings in their turn. Though they have the greatest opportunity of observing the impotence and unmeaningness of the character, they envy it. It is their trade perpetually to extol the dignity and importance of the master they serve; and men cannot long anxiously endeavor to convince others of the truth of any proposition without becoming half convinced themselves.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "William Godwin",
        "slug": "william-godwin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-godwin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Enquiry Concerning Political Justice",
        "slug": "enquiry-concerning-political-justice",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-godwin/enquiry-concerning-political-justice"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "beliefs",
          "slug": "beliefs",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/beliefs"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Godwin#Enquiry_Concerning_Political_Justice_(1793)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:54:09"
    },
    {
      "id": "399d07cf-4f1b-4b3b-b473-6cc86ebdd948",
      "slug": "government-in-reality",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-godwin/enquiry-concerning-political-justice/government-in-reality",
      "text": "Government in reality, as has abundantly appeared, is a question of force, and not of consent. It is desirable that a government should be made as agreeable as possible to the ideas and inclinations of its subjects and that they should be consulted, as extensively as may be, respecting its construction and regulations. But, at last, the best constituted government that can be formed particularly for a large community, will contain many provisions that, far from having obtained the consent of all its members, encounter even in their outset a strenuous, thought ineffectual opposition.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "William Godwin",
        "slug": "william-godwin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-godwin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Enquiry Concerning Political Justice",
        "slug": "enquiry-concerning-political-justice",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-godwin/enquiry-concerning-political-justice"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "the state",
          "slug": "the-state",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-state"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Godwin#Enquiry_Concerning_Political_Justice_(1793)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:54:09"
    },
    {
      "id": "f72037b0-7b4d-4ff5-8784-14a63a3b8753",
      "slug": "his-ideas-are",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-stross/accelerando/his-ideas-are",
      "text": "His ideas are informed by a painfully honest humanism, and everyone—even his enemies—agrees that he is one of the greatest theoreticians of the post-EU era. But his intellectual integrity prevents him from rising to the very top, and his fellow travelers are much ruder about him than his ideological enemies, accusing him of the ultimate political crime—valuing truth over power.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Charles Stross",
        "slug": "charles-stross",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-stross"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Accelerando",
        "slug": "accelerando",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-stross/accelerando"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 60,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "truth",
          "slug": "truth",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/truth"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Stross#Accelerando_(2005)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:54:05"
    },
    {
      "id": "f2ddd48a-6018-49da-8530-f94521513874",
      "slug": "will-you-stop",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-stross/singularity-sky/will-you-stop",
      "text": "“Will you stop calling me a child!”\n\nRachel hunched around in her chair and stared at him. “But you are, you know. Even if you were sixty years old, you’d still be a child to me. As long as you expect someone or something else to take responsibility for you, you’re a child. You could fuck your way through every brothel in New Prague, and you’d still be an overgrown schoolboy.” She looked at him sadly. “What would you call a parent who never let their children grow up? That’s what we think of your government.”",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Charles Stross",
        "slug": "charles-stross",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-stross"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Singularity Sky",
        "slug": "singularity-sky",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-stross/singularity-sky"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 299,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "responsibility",
          "slug": "responsibility",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/responsibility"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Stross#Singularity_Sky_(2003)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:54:04"
    },
    {
      "id": "1ad07648-5150-4a68-a9af-cc844313190a",
      "slug": "i-wouldnt-destroy",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/megan-whalen-turner/the-king-of-attolia/i-wouldnt-destroy",
      "text": "\"I wouldn't destroy an entire house to destroy one man. But I would destroy a man to destroy a house.\"",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Megan Whalen Turner",
        "slug": "megan-whalen-turner",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/megan-whalen-turner"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The King of Attolia",
        "slug": "the-king-of-attolia",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/megan-whalen-turner/the-king-of-attolia"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "revenge",
          "slug": "revenge",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revenge"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Megan_Whalen_Turner#The_King_of_Attolia_(2006)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:53:40"
    },
    {
      "id": "1bb8cab2-ce3c-4eba-af61-ac72ce3fe736",
      "slug": "no-longer-is-science",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/guy-debord/comments-on-the-society-of-the-spectacle/no-longer-is-science",
      "text": "No longer is science asked to understand the world, or to improve any part of it. It is asked instead to immediately justify everything that happens....spectacular domination has cut down the vast tree of scientific knowledge in order to make itself a truncheon.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Guy Debord",
        "slug": "guy-debord",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/guy-debord"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Comments on the Society of the Spectacle",
        "slug": "comments-on-the-society-of-the-spectacle",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/guy-debord/comments-on-the-society-of-the-spectacle"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "science",
          "slug": "science",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/science"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Guy_Debord#Comments_on_the_Society_of_the_Spectacle_(1988)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:53:35"
    },
    {
      "id": "5b14c399-cdf1-4dec-908c-8710685e1612",
      "slug": "the-trouble-with",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/molly-ivins/you-got-to-dance-with-them-what-brung-you/the-trouble-with",
      "text": "The trouble with blaming powerless people is that although it's not nearly as scary as blaming the powerful, it does miss the point. Poor people do not shut down factories. Poor people are not in charge of those mergers and acquisitions in which tens of thousands of people lose their jobs so a few people in top positions can make a killing on the stock market. Poor people did not decide to keep wages either steady or falling for the last twenty years. Poor people didn't decide to use 'contract employees' because they cost less and don't get any benefits. (\"Wasting Perfectly Good Anger\" 1997)",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Molly Ivins",
        "slug": "molly-ivins",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/molly-ivins"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You",
        "slug": "you-got-to-dance-with-them-what-brung-you",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/molly-ivins/you-got-to-dance-with-them-what-brung-you"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "poverty",
          "slug": "poverty",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/poverty"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Molly_Ivins#You_Got_to_Dance_with_Them_What_Brung_You_(1998)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:53:34"
    },
    {
      "id": "1dd71798-c266-4381-ae57-38ad46a48b70",
      "slug": "at-a-certain",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-pollan/the-botany-of-desire/at-a-certain",
      "text": "At a certain point, a point already long past, the farmer’s attempt at the perfect control of nature evolved into the control of the farmer by the corporations that promoted that dream in the first place. It is only because that dream is so elusive that the control of farmers by its merchants became so inescapable.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Michael Pollan",
        "slug": "michael-pollan",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-pollan"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Botany of Desire",
        "slug": "the-botany-of-desire",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-pollan/the-botany-of-desire"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 225,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michael_Pollan#The_Botany_of_Desire_(2001)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:53:33"
    },
    {
      "id": "cc486900-440e-4ee8-9f8b-76c2eb912a0a",
      "slug": "the-old-and",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/transition/the-old-and",
      "text": "The old and powerful never want to let go. They always think they’re both profoundly indispensable and uniquely right. They are always wrong. Part of the function of ageing and dying is to let the next generation have its say, its time in the sun, to sweep away the mistakes of the previous age while, if they’re lucky, retaining the advances made and the benefits accrued.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Iain M. Banks",
        "slug": "iain-m-banks",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Transition",
        "slug": "transition",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/transition"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 331,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "old age",
          "slug": "old-age",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/old-age"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Iain_Banks#Transition_(2009)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:53:23"
    },
    {
      "id": "8c273bf2-3cef-4558-aeac-122b92773ffd",
      "slug": "it-is-an-insane",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/transition/it-is-an-insane",
      "text": "It is an insane conceit. Power always drives to perpetuate itself, but this is a phenomenal extra distillation of idiocy. Only people already riddled with the internalised special pleading and self-importance that too much power brings could even start to imagine that this might be in any way sustainable.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Iain M. Banks",
        "slug": "iain-m-banks",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Transition",
        "slug": "transition",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/transition"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 331,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Iain_Banks#Transition_(2009)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:53:23"
    },
    {
      "id": "99d653d9-eaa4-4c15-9dcf-e75294fabbe3",
      "slug": "when-you-have",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/against-a-dark-background/when-you-have",
      "text": "When you have this sort of power, this responsibility, you can’t choose not to have it when the decisions become tough. You can’t afford to prevaricate or delegate; you have to be engaged. You can’t stay neutral; you can say you’re neutral, and try to act as though you are, but that neutrality will always help one side more than the other; that’s just the way power works...the leverage it exerts.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Iain M. Banks",
        "slug": "iain-m-banks",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Against A Dark Background",
        "slug": "against-a-dark-background",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/against-a-dark-background"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 271,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "responsibility",
          "slug": "responsibility",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/responsibility"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Iain_Banks#Against_a_Dark_Background_(1993)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:53:22"
    },
    {
      "id": "16d1ce60-eb54-4e8e-a7d5-60edb55ddbea",
      "slug": "mr-taak-he-said",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/the-algebraist/mr-taak-he-said",
      "text": "“Mr Taak,” he said, sitting back, sounding patient. “I’ve inspected your profile. You are not stupid. Misguided, idealistic, naive, certainly, but not stupid. You must know how societies work. You must at least have an inkling. They work on force, power and coercion. People don’t behave themselves because they are nice. That’s the liberal fallacy. People behave themselves because if they don’t they will be punished. All this is known. It isn’t even debatable. Civilisation after civilisation, society after society, species after species, all show the same pattern. Society is control: control is reward and punishment. Reward is being allowed to partake of the fruits of that society and, as a general but not unbreakable rule, not being punished without cause.”",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Iain M. Banks",
        "slug": "iain-m-banks",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Algebraist",
        "slug": "the-algebraist",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/the-algebraist"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 144,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "society",
          "slug": "society",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/society"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Iain_Banks#The_Algebraist_(2004)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:53:22"
    },
    {
      "id": "09ae42c5-e9b4-476e-aca6-e84119e3b27c",
      "slug": "in-the-old",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/the-algebraist/in-the-old",
      "text": "In the old days he had once wondered how many of the Cessorian high command, his old bosses, really believed in the Truth. He strongly suspected that the higher you went, the greater grew the proportion of those who didn’t really believe at all. They were in it for the power, the glory, the control and the glamour.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Iain M. Banks",
        "slug": "iain-m-banks",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Algebraist",
        "slug": "the-algebraist",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/the-algebraist"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 223,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "faith",
          "slug": "faith",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/faith"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Iain_Banks#The_Algebraist_(2004)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:53:22"
    },
    {
      "id": "28322456-82a5-41ef-80ee-c67b696e5202",
      "slug": "it-rarely-paid",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/the-hydrogen-sonata/it-rarely-paid",
      "text": "It rarely paid to frighten the masses, and it never paid to confuse them.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Iain M. Banks",
        "slug": "iain-m-banks",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Hydrogen Sonata",
        "slug": "the-hydrogen-sonata",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/the-hydrogen-sonata"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 92,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Iain_Banks#The_Hydrogen_Sonata_(2013)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:53:20"
    },
    {
      "id": "f6f237aa-317d-4285-aae7-62a2e61debe1",
      "slug": "roundly-insulting-ones",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/matter/roundly-insulting-ones",
      "text": "Roundly insulting one’s superiors behind their backs was one of the perks of being inferior, Choubris held.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Iain M. Banks",
        "slug": "iain-m-banks",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Matter",
        "slug": "matter",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/matter"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 44,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "humor",
          "slug": "humor",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor"
        },
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Iain_Banks#Matter_(2008)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:53:19"
    },
    {
      "id": "d8b2080c-5487-474e-80c4-600316d482d6",
      "slug": "had-they-felt",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/matter/had-they-felt",
      "text": "Had they felt righteous, believing that the justice of their cause was being recognized by higher powers? For no doubt that was how they did think. It seemed to tyl Loesp everybody always thought they were right, and shared, too, the quaint belief that the very fervency of a belief, however deluded, somehow made it true.\n\nThey were all of them fools.\n\nThere was no right and wrong, there was simply effectiveness and inability, might and weakness, cunning and gullibility. That he knew this was his advantage, but it was one of better understanding, not moral superiority—he had no delusions there.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Iain M. Banks",
        "slug": "iain-m-banks",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Matter",
        "slug": "matter",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/matter"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 190,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "morality",
          "slug": "morality",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/morality"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Iain_Banks#Matter_(2008)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:53:19"
    },
    {
      "id": "a2618203-b726-467b-8cd9-e49441404903",
      "slug": "holse-had-no-idea",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/matter/holse-had-no-idea",
      "text": "Holse had no idea how these things worked; he had never really bothered with religion, though he had always paid lip-service to the church for the sake of an easy life. He had long suspected that the WorldGod was just another convenient semi-fiction supporting the whole structure that sustained the rich and powerful in their privilege.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Iain M. Banks",
        "slug": "iain-m-banks",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Matter",
        "slug": "matter",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/matter"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 101,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "religion",
          "slug": "religion",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/religion"
        },
        {
          "name": "wealth",
          "slug": "wealth",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/wealth"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Iain_Banks#Matter_(2008)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:53:19"
    },
    {
      "id": "3ea171c5-24d7-4321-90e2-815cdbd915ee",
      "slug": "ferbins-father-had",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/matter/ferbins-father-had",
      "text": "Ferbin’s father had had the same robustly pragmatic view of religion as he’d had of everything else. In his opinion, only the very poor and downtrodden really needed religion, to make their laborious lives more bearable. People craved self-importance; they longed to be told they mattered as individuals, not just as part of a mass of people or some historical process. They needed the reassurance that while their life might be hard, bitter and thankless, some reward would be theirs after death. Happily for the governing class, a well-formed faith also kept people from seeking their recompense in the here and now, through riot, insurrection or revolution.\n\nA temple was worth a dozen barracks; a militia man carrying a gun could control a small unarmed crowd only for as long as he was present; however, a single priest could put a policeman inside the head of every one of their flock, for ever.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Iain M. Banks",
        "slug": "iain-m-banks",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Matter",
        "slug": "matter",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/matter"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 206,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "religion",
          "slug": "religion",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/religion"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Iain_Banks#Matter_(2008)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:53:19"
    },
    {
      "id": "c6a107e7-e642-4c09-bf9d-d8d6b57a12ea",
      "slug": "i-had-formed",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/inversions/i-had-formed",
      "text": "“I had formed the impression the Protector valued your counsel.”\n\n“It is most valued when it most closely accords with his own view.”",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Iain M. Banks",
        "slug": "iain-m-banks",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Inversions",
        "slug": "inversions",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/inversions"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 140,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "irony",
          "slug": "irony",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/irony"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Iain_Banks#Inversions_(1998)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:53:18"
    },
    {
      "id": "406b7934-8d77-4d96-8bc6-d28246239371",
      "slug": "i-am-told",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/inversions/i-am-told",
      "text": "I am told he is something of a scholar, which is no bad thing in a king, providing it is not taken to excess.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Iain M. Banks",
        "slug": "iain-m-banks",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Inversions",
        "slug": "inversions",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/inversions"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 402,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "humor",
          "slug": "humor",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor"
        },
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Iain_Banks#Inversions_(1998)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:53:18"
    },
    {
      "id": "151ec2ec-f7ba-4ade-81b0-e3b4c2565850",
      "slug": "there-is-always",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/inversions/there-is-always",
      "text": "There is always the right of the strong to take the weak and the rich to take the poor and the powerful to take those who have no power. UrLeyn may have written down our laws and changed a few of them, but the laws that still bind us to the animals cut the deepest. Men compete for power, they strut and parade and they impress their fellows with their possessions and they take the women they can. None of that has changed. They may use weapons other than their hands and teeth, they may use other men and they may express their dominance in money, not other symbols of power and glamour, but...",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Iain M. Banks",
        "slug": "iain-m-banks",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Inversions",
        "slug": "inversions",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/inversions"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 335,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "strength",
          "slug": "strength",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/strength"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Iain_Banks#Inversions_(1998)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:53:18"
    },
    {
      "id": "1e6b2ab8-7682-4993-8a0f-ab9c3e49ef98",
      "slug": "how-depressing-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/excession/how-depressing-the",
      "text": "How depressing, the Sleeper Service thought. That it should all come down to this; the person with the biggest stick prevails.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Iain M. Banks",
        "slug": "iain-m-banks",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Excession",
        "slug": "excession",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/excession"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 372,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "strength",
          "slug": "strength",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/strength"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Iain_Banks#Excession_(1996)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:53:17"
    },
    {
      "id": "b14e9a2f-4fdb-4f90-9087-7aa01c5ba3c6",
      "slug": "empires-are-synonymous",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/the-player-of-games/empires-are-synonymous",
      "text": "Empires are synonymous with centralized — if occasionally schismatized — hierarchical power structures in which influence is restricted to an economically privileged class retaining its advantages through — usually — a judicious use of oppression and skilled manipulation of both the society’s information dissemination systems and its lesser — as a rule nominally independent — power systems. In short, it’s all about dominance.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Iain M. Banks",
        "slug": "iain-m-banks",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Player Of Games",
        "slug": "the-player-of-games",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/the-player-of-games"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 91,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Iain_Banks#The_Player_of_Games_(1988)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:53:16"
    },
    {
      "id": "50c04dfd-dfbc-44e5-b3af-5b22e5bb72aa",
      "slug": "it-looks-perverted",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/the-player-of-games/it-looks-perverted",
      "text": "It looks perverted and wasteful to us, but then one thing that empires are not about is the efficient use of resources and the spread of happiness; both are typically accomplished despite the economic short-circuiting—corruption and favoritism, mostly—endemic to the system.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Iain M. Banks",
        "slug": "iain-m-banks",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Player Of Games",
        "slug": "the-player-of-games",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/the-player-of-games"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 91,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "corruption",
          "slug": "corruption",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/corruption"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Iain_Banks#The_Player_of_Games_(1988)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:53:16"
    },
    {
      "id": "2fda1e98-a3ee-49e6-9265-34dfd6236910",
      "slug": "he-knew-in-his",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/use-of-weapons/he-knew-in-his",
      "text": "He knew in his heart that there was a relief in not being listened to, sometimes. Power meant responsibility. Advice unacted upon almost always might have been right, and in the working out of whatever plan was followed, there was anyway always blood; better it was on their hands. The good soldier did as he was told, and if he had any sense at all volunteered for nothing, especially promotion.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Iain M. Banks",
        "slug": "iain-m-banks",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Use Of Weapons",
        "slug": "use-of-weapons",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/use-of-weapons"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 65,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "responsibility",
          "slug": "responsibility",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/responsibility"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Iain_Banks#Use_of_Weapons_(1990)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:53:16"
    },
    {
      "id": "fc020756-6254-42e9-aea8-2f0c67f03d69",
      "slug": "they-perceive-whatever",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/marge-piercy/he-she-and-it/they-perceive-whatever",
      "text": "\"They perceive whatever they don't control as hostile.\" (Avram, twenty-five: WHERE THE ELITE MEET)",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Marge Piercy",
        "slug": "marge-piercy",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/marge-piercy"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "He, She and It",
        "slug": "he-she-and-it",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/marge-piercy/he-she-and-it"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marge_Piercy#He,_She_and_It_(1991)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:53:10"
    },
    {
      "id": "826ab8a8-eadb-424e-a940-ff1a8da1fc91",
      "slug": "a-history-of-hitler",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ian-kershaw/hitler-1889-1936/a-history-of-hitler",
      "text": "A history of Hitler has to be a history of his power — how he came to get it, what its character was, how he exercised it, why he was allowed to expand it to break all institutional barriers, why resistance to that power was so feeble. But these are questions to be directed at German society, not just at Hitler.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Ian Kershaw",
        "slug": "ian-kershaw",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ian-kershaw"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Hitler 1889-1936",
        "slug": "hitler-1889-1936",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ian-kershaw/hitler-1889-1936"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "history",
          "slug": "history",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/history"
        },
        {
          "name": "society",
          "slug": "society",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/society"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ian_Kershaw#Hitler_1889-1936:_Hubris_(1999)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:53:07"
    },
    {
      "id": "f8b59c47-4130-4f48-9829-d7e2060949a5",
      "slug": "at-githima-people",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ngugi-wa-thiongo/a-grain-of-wheat/at-githima-people",
      "text": "At Githima, people believed that a complaint from [Karanja] was enough to make a man lose his job. Karanja knew their fears. Often when men came into his office, he would suddenly cast them a cold eye, drop hints, or simply growl at them; in this way, he increased their fears and insecurity. But he also feared the men and alternated this fierce prose with servile friendliness.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Ngugi wa Thiong'o",
        "slug": "ngugi-wa-thiongo",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ngugi-wa-thiongo"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Grain of Wheat",
        "slug": "a-grain-of-wheat",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ngugi-wa-thiongo/a-grain-of-wheat"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "fear",
          "slug": "fear",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Grain_of_Wheat#Quotes",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:53:04"
    },
    {
      "id": "a7dabfa6-c158-4e4c-9de6-cc963d617b20",
      "slug": "when-we-serve",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-renault/the-persian-boy/when-we-serve",
      "text": "When we serve the great, they are our destiny.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Mary Renault",
        "slug": "mary-renault",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-renault"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Persian Boy",
        "slug": "the-persian-boy",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-renault/the-persian-boy"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 26,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "fate",
          "slug": "fate",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fate"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mary_Renault#The_Persian_Boy_(1972)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:49"
    },
    {
      "id": "43a56311-4278-4892-815e-12f0abc49953",
      "slug": "our-enemy-is-power",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover/shatterpoint-star-wars-legends/our-enemy-is-power",
      "text": "Our enemy is power mistaken for justice. Our enemy is the desperation that justifies atrocity. The Jedi's true enemy is the jungle.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Matthew Stover",
        "slug": "matthew-stover",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Shatterpoint: Star Wars Legends",
        "slug": "shatterpoint-star-wars-legends",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover/shatterpoint-star-wars-legends"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 410,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "justice",
          "slug": "justice",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/justice"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Matthew_Stover#Shatterpoint_(2004)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:45"
    },
    {
      "id": "d5e1ef91-c1bb-484a-a1f0-e342280d2a02",
      "slug": "the-human-and",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charlotte-bronte/jane-eyre/the-human-and",
      "text": "The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely intrusted.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Charlotte Brontë",
        "slug": "charlotte-bronte",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charlotte-bronte"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Jane Eyre",
        "slug": "jane-eyre",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charlotte-bronte/jane-eyre"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "pride",
          "slug": "pride",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/pride"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charlotte_Bront%C3%AB#Jane_Eyre_(1847)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:41"
    },
    {
      "id": "d2505f0d-c27a-4f85-8575-7a2e109807bc",
      "slug": "i-dont-think",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charlotte-bronte/jane-eyre/i-dont-think",
      "text": "I don't think, sir, that you have a right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Charlotte Brontë",
        "slug": "charlotte-bronte",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charlotte-bronte"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Jane Eyre",
        "slug": "jane-eyre",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charlotte-bronte/jane-eyre"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "experience",
          "slug": "experience",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/experience"
        },
        {
          "name": "respect",
          "slug": "respect",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charlotte_Bront%C3%AB#Jane_Eyre_(1847)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:41"
    },
    {
      "id": "48d6f25b-6765-40fa-b5ce-2421fec3fa26",
      "slug": "there-is-no-good",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jk-rowling/harry-potter-and-the-philosophers-stone/there-is-no-good",
      "text": "There is no good and evil, there is only power, and those too weak to seek it …",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "J.K. Rowling",
        "slug": "jk-rowling",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jk-rowling"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone",
        "slug": "harry-potter-and-the-philosophers-stone",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jk-rowling/harry-potter-and-the-philosophers-stone"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "evil",
          "slug": "evil",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/evil"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Philosopher's_Stone#The_Man_with_Two_Faces",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:39"
    },
    {
      "id": "8c408844-f8a7-4ae7-a68d-3fbf2fcca1ca",
      "slug": "without-some-element",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kevin-kelly/new-rules-for-the-new-economy/without-some-element",
      "text": "Without some element of governance from the top, bottom-up control will freeze when options are many. Without some element of leadership, the many at the bottom will be paralysed with choices.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Kevin Kelly",
        "slug": "kevin-kelly",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kevin-kelly"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "New Rules for the New Economy",
        "slug": "new-rules-for-the-new-economy",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kevin-kelly/new-rules-for-the-new-economy"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "leadership",
          "slug": "leadership",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/leadership"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kevin_Kelly_(editor)#New_Rules_for_the_New_Economy:_10_Radical_Strategies_for_a_Connected_World_(1999)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:17"
    },
    {
      "id": "cc38f66b-6700-412c-9bda-e364e036ae9a",
      "slug": "no-one-has",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kevin-kelly/out-of-control/no-one-has",
      "text": "No one has been more wrong about computerization than George Orwell in 1984. So far, nearly everything about the actual possibility-space which computers have created indicates they are the end of authority and not its beginning.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Kevin Kelly",
        "slug": "kevin-kelly",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kevin-kelly"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Out Of Control",
        "slug": "out-of-control",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kevin-kelly/out-of-control"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "technological progress",
          "slug": "technological-progress",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/technological-progress"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kevin_Kelly_(editor)#Out_of_Control:_The_New_Biology_of_Machines,_Social_Systems_and_the_Economic_World_(1995)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:16"
    },
    {
      "id": "6c6603e0-ec05-469d-9aef-44a645531e36",
      "slug": "when-everything-happens",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kevin-kelly/out-of-control/when-everything-happens",
      "text": "When everything happens at once, wide and fast moving problems simply route around any central authority. Therefore overall governance must arise from the most humble interdependent acts done locally in parallel, and not from a central command.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Kevin Kelly",
        "slug": "kevin-kelly",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kevin-kelly"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Out Of Control",
        "slug": "out-of-control",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kevin-kelly/out-of-control"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kevin_Kelly_(editor)#Out_of_Control:_The_New_Biology_of_Machines,_Social_Systems_and_the_Economic_World_(1995)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:16"
    },
    {
      "id": "03a3ebd0-6822-4e90-9b1f-d73e3e1e1e0d",
      "slug": "we-cannot-import",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kevin-kelly/out-of-control/we-cannot-import",
      "text": "We cannot import evolution and learning without exporting control.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Kevin Kelly",
        "slug": "kevin-kelly",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kevin-kelly"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Out Of Control",
        "slug": "out-of-control",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kevin-kelly/out-of-control"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "evolution",
          "slug": "evolution",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/evolution"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kevin_Kelly_(editor)#Out_of_Control:_The_New_Biology_of_Machines,_Social_Systems_and_the_Economic_World_(1995)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:16"
    },
    {
      "id": "93696b6c-c968-4471-aeb0-a9719ce09026",
      "slug": "theres-nothing-more",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kevin-kelly/out-of-control/theres-nothing-more",
      "text": "There's nothing more addictive than being a god.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Kevin Kelly",
        "slug": "kevin-kelly",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kevin-kelly"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Out Of Control",
        "slug": "out-of-control",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kevin-kelly/out-of-control"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "addiction",
          "slug": "addiction-2",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/addiction-2"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kevin_Kelly_(editor)#Out_of_Control:_The_New_Biology_of_Machines,_Social_Systems_and_the_Economic_World_(1995)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:15"
    },
    {
      "id": "2f0612d5-e0c8-4d27-b361-fe7738af3af8",
      "slug": "dont-quibble-with",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago/the-cave/dont-quibble-with",
      "text": "Don’t quibble with the king over pears, let him eat the ripe ones and give you the green ones.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "José Saramago",
        "slug": "jose-saramago",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Cave",
        "slug": "the-cave",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago/the-cave"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 78,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "humor",
          "slug": "humor",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor"
        },
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Saramago#The_Cave_(2000)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:14"
    },
    {
      "id": "b1444944-df64-4147-8279-71a40da6a51f",
      "slug": "power-is-power",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-donaldson/the-illearth-war/power-is-power",
      "text": "Power is power. Its uses are in the hands of the user.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Stephen Donaldson",
        "slug": "stephen-donaldson",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-donaldson"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Illearth War",
        "slug": "the-illearth-war",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-donaldson/the-illearth-war"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 251,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stephen_R._Donaldson#The_Illearth_War_(1977)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:04"
    },
    {
      "id": "0bdbbd89-ef7d-4af3-9bb3-4ed5f9cf80d3",
      "slug": "power-was-dreadful",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-donaldson/the-power-that-preserves/power-was-dreadful",
      "text": "Power was dreadful and treacherous. When it was not great enough to accomplish its wielder’s desires, it turned against the hands which held it.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Stephen Donaldson",
        "slug": "stephen-donaldson",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-donaldson"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Power That Preserves",
        "slug": "the-power-that-preserves",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-donaldson/the-power-that-preserves"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 30,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stephen_R._Donaldson#The_Power_that_Preserves_(1977)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:04"
    },
    {
      "id": "68406711-3a89-4cb2-ba11-7e25db99dddb",
      "slug": "the-real-problem",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-bova/saturn/the-real-problem",
      "text": "“The real problem,” Eberly burst out, “is that these regulations were written by people who live in a world that must be tightly controlled. They all share the same basic, underlying view that society must be hierarchical and controlled from the top.”\n\nWilmot felt pleased that the discussion was moving into his field of interest. “Aren’t all societies controlled from the top? Even so-called democracies are ruled by a small elite group; the only difference is that a democracy can shift its elite without bloodshed and give the general populace the illusion that they have made a telling change.”",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Ben Bova",
        "slug": "ben-bova",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-bova"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Saturn",
        "slug": "saturn",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ben-bova/saturn"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 115,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "democracy",
          "slug": "democracy",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/democracy"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ben_Bova#Saturn_(2003)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:02"
    },
    {
      "id": "efffd722-04c0-4de3-9d5a-813b4d25586f",
      "slug": "tis-but-a-tent",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam/rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam/tis-but-a-tent",
      "text": "'Tis but a Tent where takes his one day's rest\n\nA Sultan to the realm of Death addrest;\n\nThe Sultan rises, and the dark Ferrash\n\nStrikes, and prepares it for another Guest.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Omar Khayyam",
        "slug": "omar-khayyam",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam",
        "slug": "rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam/rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "death",
          "slug": "death",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/death"
        },
        {
          "name": "transience",
          "slug": "transience",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Omar_Khayy%C3%A1m#FitzGerald,_Rub%C3%A1iy%C3%A1t_of_Omar_Khayy%C3%A1m_(1859,_'68,_'72,_'79,_'89)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:00"
    },
    {
      "id": "bb284746-e612-4a7e-b221-696302cec458",
      "slug": "how-sweet-is-mortal",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam/rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam/how-sweet-is-mortal",
      "text": "\"How sweet is mortal Sovranty!\"—think some:\n\nOthers — \"How blest the Paradise to come!\"\n\nAh, take the Cash in hand and wave the Rest;\n\nOh, the brave Music of a distant Drum!",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Omar Khayyam",
        "slug": "omar-khayyam",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam",
        "slug": "rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam/rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "the present",
          "slug": "the-present",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-present"
        },
        {
          "name": "paradise",
          "slug": "paradise",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/paradise"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Omar_Khayy%C3%A1m#FitzGerald,_Rub%C3%A1iy%C3%A1t_of_Omar_Khayy%C3%A1m_(1859,_'68,_'72,_'79,_'89)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:59"
    },
    {
      "id": "b54f7900-72e4-4dac-b6b8-337197d72ad3",
      "slug": "they-say-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam/rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam/they-say-the",
      "text": "They say the Lion and the Lizard keep\n\nThe Courts where Jamshýd gloried and drank deep:\n\nAnd Bahrám, that great Hunter—the Wild Ass\n\nStamps o'er his Head, and he lies fast asleep.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Omar Khayyam",
        "slug": "omar-khayyam",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam",
        "slug": "rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam/rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "transience",
          "slug": "transience",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience"
        },
        {
          "name": "fame",
          "slug": "fame",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fame"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Omar_Khayy%C3%A1m#FitzGerald,_Rub%C3%A1iy%C3%A1t_of_Omar_Khayy%C3%A1m_(1859,_'68,_'72,_'79,_'89)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:59"
    },
    {
      "id": "58b81474-79a8-4dfe-be5b-3aa2ea18dc3f",
      "slug": "think-in-this-batterd",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam/rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam/think-in-this-batterd",
      "text": "Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai\n\nWhose Portals are alternate Night and Day,\n\nHow Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp\n\nAbode his destined Hour, and went his way.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Omar Khayyam",
        "slug": "omar-khayyam",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam",
        "slug": "rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam/rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "transience",
          "slug": "transience",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/transience"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Omar_Khayy%C3%A1m#FitzGerald,_Rub%C3%A1iy%C3%A1t_of_Omar_Khayy%C3%A1m_(1859,_'68,_'72,_'79,_'89)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:59"
    },
    {
      "id": "bea5d006-106b-4653-a9f6-3cbf49d793e6",
      "slug": "oderint-dum-metuant",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/settling-accounts-drive-to-the-east/oderint-dum-metuant",
      "text": "“Oderint dum metuant,” O’Doull murmured….\n\n“But it means, ‘let them hate, as long as they fear.’”\n\n“Three words,” McDougald said admiringly. “Boy, that packs more into three words than anything this side of ‘I love you.’”",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Harry Turtledove",
        "slug": "harry-turtledove",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Settling Accounts: Drive to the East",
        "slug": "settling-accounts-drive-to-the-east",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/settling-accounts-drive-to-the-east"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 576,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "fear",
          "slug": "fear",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Harry_Turtledove#Settling_Accounts:_Drive_to_the_East_(2005)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:54"
    },
    {
      "id": "01f6cf41-9452-446f-8ea7-e2fc2963e278",
      "slug": "a-man-who",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/settling-accounts-drive-to-the-east/a-man-who",
      "text": "A man who expended power on a whim was a fool.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Harry Turtledove",
        "slug": "harry-turtledove",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Settling Accounts: Drive to the East",
        "slug": "settling-accounts-drive-to-the-east",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/settling-accounts-drive-to-the-east"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 184,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "stupidity",
          "slug": "stupidity",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/stupidity"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Harry_Turtledove#Settling_Accounts:_Drive_to_the_East_(2005)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:54"
    },
    {
      "id": "8e6ac4b0-a368-4da4-94fe-f0bb04f53d99",
      "slug": "he-sees-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/the-great-war-breakthroughs/he-sees-the",
      "text": "He sees the country going forward. He doesn’t see the suffering he’s creating to make it go in the direction he wants.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Harry Turtledove",
        "slug": "harry-turtledove",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Great War: Breakthroughs",
        "slug": "the-great-war-breakthroughs",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/the-great-war-breakthroughs"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 157,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "suffering",
          "slug": "suffering",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/suffering"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Harry_Turtledove#The_Great_War:_Breakthroughs_(2000)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:49"
    },
    {
      "id": "1498a4d3-809e-49d9-9f20-8e638de64fb6",
      "slug": "when-war-reached",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/the-great-war-walk-in-hell/when-war-reached",
      "text": "When war reached out its hand, what did wealth and power matter? A fool with a gun could take them away. A fool with a gun had just taken them away.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Harry Turtledove",
        "slug": "harry-turtledove",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Great War: Walk in Hell",
        "slug": "the-great-war-walk-in-hell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/the-great-war-walk-in-hell"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 11,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "war",
          "slug": "war",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war"
        },
        {
          "name": "wealth",
          "slug": "wealth",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/wealth"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Harry_Turtledove#The_Great_War:_Walk_in_Hell_(1999)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:48"
    },
    {
      "id": "9bc266f3-68d7-4069-a3c2-81f3e7c8f92d",
      "slug": "whether-the-bear",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/agent-of-byzantium/whether-the-bear",
      "text": "Whether the bear beats the lion or the lion the bear, the rabbit always loses.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Harry Turtledove",
        "slug": "harry-turtledove",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Agent of Byzantium",
        "slug": "agent-of-byzantium",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/agent-of-byzantium"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 20,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "war",
          "slug": "war",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Harry_Turtledove#Agent_of_Byzantium_(1987)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:45"
    },
    {
      "id": "77d8700e-cac6-4e4d-8fc9-4a5fd574454f",
      "slug": "is-man-ever",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/harriet-beecher-stowe/uncle-toms-cabin/is-man-ever",
      "text": "Is man ever a creature to be trusted with wholly irresponsible power? And does not the slave system, by denying the slave all legal right of testimony, make every individual owner an irresponsible despot? Can anybody fall to make the inference what the practical result will be? If there is, as we admit, a public sentiment among you, men of honor, justice and humanity, is there not also another kind of public sentiment among the ruffian, the brutal and debased? And cannot the ruffian, the brutal, the debased, by slave law, own just as many slaves as the best and purest? Are the honorable, the just, the high-minded and compassionate, the majority anywhere in this world?",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Harriet Beecher-Stowe",
        "slug": "harriet-beecher-stowe",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/harriet-beecher-stowe"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Uncle Tom's Cabin",
        "slug": "uncle-toms-cabin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/harriet-beecher-stowe/uncle-toms-cabin"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "slavery",
          "slug": "slavery",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/slavery"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Harriet_Beecher_Stowe#Concluding_Remarks",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:45"
    },
    {
      "id": "a52d0197-8607-4d34-b7bd-9cf4a5ac2e16",
      "slug": "we-hear-often",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/harriet-beecher-stowe/uncle-toms-cabin/we-hear-often",
      "text": "We hear often of the distress of the negro servants, on the loss of a kind master; and with good reason, for no creature on God's earth is left more utterly unprotected and desolate than the slave in these circumstances.\n\nThe child who has lost a father has still the protection of friends, and of the law; he is something, and can do something, — has acknowledged rights and position; the slave has none. The law regards him, in every respect, as devoid of rights as a bale of merchandise. The only possible acknowledgment of any of the longings and wants of a human and immortal creature, which are given to him, comes to him through the sovereign and irresponsible will of his master; and when that master is stricken down, nothing remains.\n\nThe number of those men who know how to use wholly irresponsible power humanely and generously is small. Everybody knows this, and the slave knows it best of all; so that he feels that there are ten chances of his finding an abusive and tyrannical master, to one of his finding a considerate and kind one. Therefore is it that the wail over a kind master is loud and long, as well it may be.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Harriet Beecher-Stowe",
        "slug": "harriet-beecher-stowe",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/harriet-beecher-stowe"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Uncle Tom's Cabin",
        "slug": "uncle-toms-cabin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/harriet-beecher-stowe/uncle-toms-cabin"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "slavery",
          "slug": "slavery",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/slavery"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Harriet_Beecher_Stowe#Uncle_Tom's_Cabin_(1852)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:44"
    },
    {
      "id": "d0ac59e0-49b0-4f03-b734-ffe68c047925",
      "slug": "in-point-of-fact",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-george-frazer/the-golden-bough/in-point-of-fact",
      "text": "In point of fact magicians appear to have often developed into chiefs and kings.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "James George Frazer",
        "slug": "james-george-frazer",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-george-frazer"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Golden Bough",
        "slug": "the-golden-bough",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-george-frazer/the-golden-bough"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "magic",
          "slug": "magic",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/magic"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Frazer#The_Golden_Bough_(1890)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:38"
    },
    {
      "id": "7b1ceb24-b859-4629-a10c-c43a7f4cbaac",
      "slug": "but-once-a-fool",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-george-frazer/the-golden-bough/but-once-a-fool",
      "text": "But once a fool always a fool, and the greater the power in his hands the more disastrous is likely to be the use he makes of it. The heaviest calamity in English history, the breach with America, might never have occurred if George the Third had not been an honest dullard.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "James George Frazer",
        "slug": "james-george-frazer",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-george-frazer"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Golden Bough",
        "slug": "the-golden-bough",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-george-frazer/the-golden-bough"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "stupidity",
          "slug": "stupidity",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/stupidity"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Frazer#The_Golden_Bough_(1890)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:38"
    },
    {
      "id": "3f7f251b-1fcd-4bdd-a2cf-be26c2e60fbd",
      "slug": "if-their-king",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-george-frazer/the-golden-bough/if-their-king",
      "text": "If their king is their god, he is or should be also their preserver; and if he will not preserve them, he must make room for another who will.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "James George Frazer",
        "slug": "james-george-frazer",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-george-frazer"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Golden Bough",
        "slug": "the-golden-bough",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-george-frazer/the-golden-bough"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Frazer#The_Golden_Bough_(1890)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:38"
    },
    {
      "id": "52b4dc4e-977e-45cd-893b-58454438bc5a",
      "slug": "we-hope-that",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thucydides/history-of-the-peloponnesian-war/we-hope-that",
      "text": "We hope that you, instead of thinking to influence us by saying that you did not join the Lacedaemonians, although their colonists, or that you have done us no wrong, will aim at what is feasible, holding in view the real sentiments of us both; since you know as well as we do that right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Thucydides",
        "slug": "thucydides",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thucydides"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "History of the Peloponnesian War",
        "slug": "history-of-the-peloponnesian-war",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thucydides/history-of-the-peloponnesian-war"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "justice",
          "slug": "justice",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/justice"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thucydides#Book_V",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:36"
    },
    {
      "id": "412623e3-9423-4c72-8700-f85bf6a5221d",
      "slug": "of-the-gods",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thucydides/history-of-the-peloponnesian-war/of-the-gods",
      "text": "Of the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Thucydides",
        "slug": "thucydides",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thucydides"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "History of the Peloponnesian War",
        "slug": "history-of-the-peloponnesian-war",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thucydides/history-of-the-peloponnesian-war"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "god",
          "slug": "god",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/god"
        },
        {
          "name": "human nature",
          "slug": "human-nature",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/human-nature"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thucydides#Book_V",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:36"
    },
    {
      "id": "0cdb2ba7-47bc-4fe5-a216-a811fc6933d8",
      "slug": "i-have-often",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thucydides/history-of-the-peloponnesian-war/i-have-often",
      "text": "I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire...",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Thucydides",
        "slug": "thucydides",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thucydides"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "History of the Peloponnesian War",
        "slug": "history-of-the-peloponnesian-war",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thucydides/history-of-the-peloponnesian-war"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "democracy",
          "slug": "democracy",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/democracy"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thucydides#Book_III",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:36"
    },
    {
      "id": "86d4117e-ee24-470d-a4a4-26e5aa75e864",
      "slug": "for-the-true",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thucydides/history-of-the-peloponnesian-war/for-the-true",
      "text": "For the true author of the subjugation of a people is not so much the immediate agent, as the power which permits it having the means to prevent it.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Thucydides",
        "slug": "thucydides",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thucydides"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "History of the Peloponnesian War",
        "slug": "history-of-the-peloponnesian-war",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thucydides/history-of-the-peloponnesian-war"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "responsibility",
          "slug": "responsibility",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/responsibility"
        },
        {
          "name": "indifference",
          "slug": "indifference",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/indifference"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thucydides#Book_I",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:35"
    },
    {
      "id": "84df5b25-b5ca-4346-99fc-189223e247ad",
      "slug": "the-real-cause",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thucydides/history-of-the-peloponnesian-war/the-real-cause",
      "text": "The real cause I consider to be the one which was formerly most kept out of sight. The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired the Lacedaemon, made war inevitable.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Thucydides",
        "slug": "thucydides",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thucydides"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "History of the Peloponnesian War",
        "slug": "history-of-the-peloponnesian-war",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thucydides/history-of-the-peloponnesian-war"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "war",
          "slug": "war",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war"
        },
        {
          "name": "fear",
          "slug": "fear",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thucydides#Book_I",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:35"
    },
    {
      "id": "4dc132d2-bf81-4575-8949-6bf175ac3d0e",
      "slug": "for-the-love",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thucydides/history-of-the-peloponnesian-war/for-the-love",
      "text": "For the love of gain would reconcile the weaker to the dominion of the stronger, and the possession of capital enabled the more powerful to reduce the smaller cities to subjection.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Thucydides",
        "slug": "thucydides",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thucydides"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "History of the Peloponnesian War",
        "slug": "history-of-the-peloponnesian-war",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thucydides/history-of-the-peloponnesian-war"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "greed",
          "slug": "greed",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/greed"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thucydides#Book_I",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:35"
    },
    {
      "id": "6c484e26-6ca0-4772-8f43-8b9f2d8a76f9",
      "slug": "as-during-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-m-coetzee/diary-of-a-bad-year/as-during-the",
      "text": "As during the time of kings it would have been naive to think that the king’s firstborn son would be the fittest to rule, so in our time it is naive to think that the democratically elected ruler will be the fittest. The rule of succession is not a formula for identifying the best ruler, it is a formula for conferring legitimacy on someone or other and thus forestalling civil conflict.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "J. M. Coetzee",
        "slug": "j-m-coetzee",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-m-coetzee"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Diary of a Bad Year",
        "slug": "diary-of-a-bad-year",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-m-coetzee/diary-of-a-bad-year"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 14,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "democracy",
          "slug": "democracy",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/democracy"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/J._M._Coetzee#Diary_of_a_Bad_Year_(2007)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:33"
    },
    {
      "id": "5860fd0b-ddf0-40ae-a5e2-daeb71074527",
      "slug": "machiavelli-says-that",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-m-coetzee/diary-of-a-bad-year/machiavelli-says-that",
      "text": "Machiavelli says that if as a ruler you accept that your every action must pass moral scrutiny, you will without fail be defeated by an opponent who submits to no such moral test. To hold on to power, you have not only to master the crafts of deception and treachery but to be prepared to use them where necessary.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "J. M. Coetzee",
        "slug": "j-m-coetzee",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-m-coetzee"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Diary of a Bad Year",
        "slug": "diary-of-a-bad-year",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-m-coetzee/diary-of-a-bad-year"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 17,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        },
        {
          "name": "morality",
          "slug": "morality",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/morality"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/J._M._Coetzee#Diary_of_a_Bad_Year_(2007)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:33"
    },
    {
      "id": "ef62c8ac-d0de-4490-8d68-ea617f873241",
      "slug": "to-me-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-m-coetzee/foe/to-me-the",
      "text": "To me the moral is that he has the last word who disposes over the greatest force. I mean the executioner and his assistants, both great and small. If I were the Irish woman, I should rest most uneasy in my grave knowing to what interpreter the story of my last hours has been consigned.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "J. M. Coetzee",
        "slug": "j-m-coetzee",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-m-coetzee"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Foe",
        "slug": "foe",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-m-coetzee/foe"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "truth",
          "slug": "truth",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/truth"
        },
        {
          "name": "history",
          "slug": "history",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/history"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/J._M._Coetzee#Foe_(1986)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:30"
    },
    {
      "id": "90bfedad-07dd-4086-8aa8-e0562b751378",
      "slug": "i-tell-myself",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-m-coetzee/foe/i-tell-myself",
      "text": "I tell myself I talked to Friday to educate him out of darkness and silence. But is that the truth? There are times when benevolence deserts me and I use words only as the shortest way to subject him to my will.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "J. M. Coetzee",
        "slug": "j-m-coetzee",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-m-coetzee"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Foe",
        "slug": "foe",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-m-coetzee/foe"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "language",
          "slug": "language",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/language"
        },
        {
          "name": "manipulation",
          "slug": "manipulation",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/manipulation"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/J._M._Coetzee#Foe_(1986)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:30"
    },
    {
      "id": "bab47b92-6c5e-4cc5-a8a5-a21d31588f0a",
      "slug": "ive-come-to-believe",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/the-visitor/ive-come-to-believe",
      "text": "I’ve come to believe, from experience and reading and what I’ve learned on the outside, that the Regime—I suppose really, one might say any regime—is rather like a pot of porridge. If vigorously stirred every now and then, it can be a nourishing if not always tasty staple, but if left on the heat unstirred for some time it becomes increasing stodgy. If left untended, it can char into an immovable solid, like coal.\n\nThereafter, it is incapable of being stirred, incapable of providing nourishment. When a regime is like that, citizens have to resort to bribery or lawbreaking to do quite necessary things like digging wells or fixing roads, thus joining corruption to congealment.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Sheri S. Tepper",
        "slug": "sheri-s-tepper",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Visitor",
        "slug": "the-visitor",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/the-visitor"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 293,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "the state",
          "slug": "the-state",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-state"
        },
        {
          "name": "corruption",
          "slug": "corruption",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/corruption"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sheri_S._Tepper#The_Visitor_(2002)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:27"
    },
    {
      "id": "44f0ff9f-e4fb-41fe-91a6-0025b45c9864",
      "slug": "your-leaders-worshipped",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/the-visitor/your-leaders-worshipped",
      "text": "Your leaders worshipped the greed devil when they sold their votes and influence to spread bad stuff; they worshipped the power devil when they valued votes over the health of the planet; they made a pretence of mercy and justice by advocating human rights while they sucked up to dominance devils whose law was torture and whose rule was the enslavement of women.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Sheri S. Tepper",
        "slug": "sheri-s-tepper",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Visitor",
        "slug": "the-visitor",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/the-visitor"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 461,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        },
        {
          "name": "greed",
          "slug": "greed",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/greed"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sheri_S._Tepper#The_Visitor_(2002)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:27"
    },
    {
      "id": "8229c0f1-30f4-4f3a-a3f5-3114d084538e",
      "slug": "you-think-staying",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/six-moon-dance/you-think-staying",
      "text": "“You think staying in power is why they do it?”\n\n“That’s usually the reason for arbitrary cruelty.”",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Sheri S. Tepper",
        "slug": "sheri-s-tepper",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Six Moon Dance",
        "slug": "six-moon-dance",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/six-moon-dance"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 513,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "cruelty",
          "slug": "cruelty",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cruelty"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sheri_S._Tepper#Six_Moon_Dance_(1998)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:25"
    },
    {
      "id": "ade3a7c1-e180-4844-86ba-91f79236b03a",
      "slug": "the-first-rule",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/shadows-end/the-first-rule",
      "text": "“The first rule of governance is never to choose who to sacrifice,” snarled the Procurator. “Or, at least, never to be seen to choose. Death and dismemberment must always be…inadvertent. Everybody’s fault or nobody’s fault!”",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Sheri S. Tepper",
        "slug": "sheri-s-tepper",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Shadow’s End",
        "slug": "shadows-end",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/shadows-end"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 82,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        },
        {
          "name": "cynicism",
          "slug": "cynicism",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cynicism"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sheri_S._Tepper#Shadow's_End_(1994)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:24"
    },
    {
      "id": "32e51a1e-8ca6-4051-967d-603da9ce9f7b",
      "slug": "every-hundred-years",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/shadows-end/every-hundred-years",
      "text": "Every hundred years they would be disillusioned, and each time they would swear to hide their disillusionment in order to retain their power. “We won’t tell anyone,” they’d say. “We won’t let anyone know. We’ll deny it. We’ll defend the traditional teachings!”\n\nSuch things that happened before! Men in power had made mistakes or foolish claims and spent the rest of their lives and their successors’ lives defending the indefensible, or hiding it.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Sheri S. Tepper",
        "slug": "sheri-s-tepper",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Shadow’s End",
        "slug": "shadows-end",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/shadows-end"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 344,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "lies",
          "slug": "lies",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/lies"
        },
        {
          "name": "tradition",
          "slug": "tradition",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/tradition"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sheri_S._Tepper#Shadow's_End_(1994)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:24"
    },
    {
      "id": "d384bc72-03ee-413b-9423-7963f2596a34",
      "slug": "i-dont-need",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/sideshow/i-dont-need",
      "text": "“I don’t need you to believe. I can make you do what I say even if you don’t believe.” A sulky-sounding voice, this. “God doesn’t need to prove anything, not if god can make people do what god wants.”",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Sheri S. Tepper",
        "slug": "sheri-s-tepper",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Sideshow",
        "slug": "sideshow",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/sideshow"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 299,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "god",
          "slug": "god",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/god"
        },
        {
          "name": "faith",
          "slug": "faith",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/faith"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sheri_S._Tepper#Sideshow_(1992)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:23"
    },
    {
      "id": "86ec9ffb-4ff5-42f2-8db4-5c7acc9f6ab6",
      "slug": "evil-comes-from",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/sideshow/evil-comes-from",
      "text": "Evil comes from unchecked power.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Sheri S. Tepper",
        "slug": "sheri-s-tepper",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Sideshow",
        "slug": "sideshow",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/sideshow"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 224,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "evil",
          "slug": "evil",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/evil"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sheri_S._Tepper#Sideshow_(1992)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:23"
    },
    {
      "id": "596cda7f-147a-449b-a7db-b9523bf53361",
      "slug": "orimar-breaze-also",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/sideshow/orimar-breaze-also",
      "text": "Orimar Breaze also considered his godhood. His followers would be called Breazians. He would demand behaviors and customs peculiar to himself. He would make rules, complicated rules, and many of them, that would take a lot of time and trouble and pain to keep. The only way he could know that his people truly loved him would be if they obeyed many onerous rules. There should be many rituals, also, rituals for everything. Much crawling. He liked the idea of crawling. Slithering, even. Also, abstentions from…from anything pleasurable.\n\nHe tried to remember what things were pleasurable. What were they? It had been such a long…so many…so… Was it sex? He seemed to remember it was sex. And food. Food had been pleasurable. So, he would make many rules about sex, many rules about food. If the rules were difficult enough, they would because for much backsliding, and that, and its turn, would be cause for much reproval! He would force…He would make people…He would punish them until they…\n\nThough he could not remember the taste of food or wine, the feel of love, the joys of human movement, he felt a surge of pure pleasure at the idea of power. He would conduct himself properly as a god, using sweet and seductive words at first; then, if that failed, using power and pain to teach his people to adore him.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Sheri S. Tepper",
        "slug": "sheri-s-tepper",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Sideshow",
        "slug": "sideshow",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/sideshow"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 401,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "religion",
          "slug": "religion",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/religion"
        },
        {
          "name": "god",
          "slug": "god",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/god"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sheri_S._Tepper#Sideshow_(1992)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:23"
    },
    {
      "id": "e22144b8-4d7e-4dbf-924e-04d786d64f24",
      "slug": "ire-and-iron",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/raising-the-stones/ire-and-iron",
      "text": "Ire and Iron and Voorstod, the three peoples who had followed Voorstod the prophet away from Manhome. Voorstod with its pastors, Ire with its priests, and Iron with its prophets: the first to rule the slaves, the second to rule the women, the last to rule the men—to rule the men, or to be used by the men, to rule. That had always been the way of men’s Gods, old men’s Gods. To use the Gods to rule.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Sheri S. Tepper",
        "slug": "sheri-s-tepper",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Raising The Stones",
        "slug": "raising-the-stones",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/raising-the-stones"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 504,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "religion",
          "slug": "religion",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/religion"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sheri_S._Tepper#Raising_the_Stones_(1990)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:22"
    },
    {
      "id": "b7eaa7c0-8c0a-4704-8439-9bbf20c9c00e",
      "slug": "his-understanding-is-not",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/the-search-of-mavin-manyshaped/his-understanding-is-not",
      "text": "His understanding is not great, but his sense of power and treachery is unfailing.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Sheri S. Tepper",
        "slug": "sheri-s-tepper",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Search of Mavin Manyshaped",
        "slug": "the-search-of-mavin-manyshaped",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/the-search-of-mavin-manyshaped"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 122,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "betrayal",
          "slug": "betrayal",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/betrayal"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sheri_S._Tepper#The_Search_of_Mavin_Manyshaped_(1985)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:18"
    },
    {
      "id": "789b5450-d7a8-4db5-a805-5f011219f321",
      "slug": "some-great-men",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-conrad/lord-jim/some-great-men",
      "text": "Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Joseph Conrad",
        "slug": "joseph-conrad",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-conrad"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Lord Jim",
        "slug": "lord-jim",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-conrad/lord-jim"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "leadership",
          "slug": "leadership",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/leadership"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lord_Jim#Quotes",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:16"
    },
    {
      "id": "40b10dee-f23c-4b91-bb39-da71f9298e85",
      "slug": "the-common-run",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/simone-weil/simone-weil-an-anthology/the-common-run",
      "text": "The common run of moralists complain that man is moved by his private self-interest: would to heaven it were so! Private interest is a self-centered principle of action, but at the same time restricted, reasonable and incapable of giving rise to unlimited evils. Whereas, on the other hand, the law of all activities governing social life, except in the case of primitive communities, is that here one sacrifices human life — in himself and in others — to things which are only means to a better way of living. This sacrifice takes on various forms, but it all comes back to the question of power. Power, by definition, is only a means; or to put it better, to possess a power is simply to possess means of action which exceed the very limited force that a single individual has at his disposal. But power-seeking, owing to its essential incapacity to seize hold of its object, rules out all consideration of an end, and finally comes, through an inevitable reversal, to take the place of all ends. It is this reversal of the relationship between means and end, it is this fundamental folly that accounts for all that is senseless and bloody right through history. Human history is simply the history of the servitude which makes men — oppressed and oppressors alike — the plaything of the instruments of domination they themselves have manufactured, and thus reduces living humanity to being the chattel of inanimate chattels.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Simone Weil",
        "slug": "simone-weil",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/simone-weil"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Simone Weil: An Anthology",
        "slug": "simone-weil-an-anthology",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/simone-weil/simone-weil-an-anthology"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 141,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "history",
          "slug": "history",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/history"
        },
        {
          "name": "slavery",
          "slug": "slavery",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/slavery"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Simone_Weil#Analysis_of_Oppression_(1955)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:14"
    },
    {
      "id": "4d1cc8af-13f2-4c09-8d9b-d26509571001",
      "slug": "those-who-keep",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/simone-weil/simone-weil-an-anthology/those-who-keep",
      "text": "Those who keep the masses of men in subjection by exercising force and cruelty deprive them at once of two vital foods, liberty and obedience; for it is no longer within the power of such masses to accord their inner consent to the authority to which they are subjected. Those who encourage a state of things in which the hope of gain is the principal motive take away from men their obedience, for consent which is its essence is not something which can be sold.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Simone Weil",
        "slug": "simone-weil",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/simone-weil"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Simone Weil: An Anthology",
        "slug": "simone-weil-an-anthology",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/simone-weil/simone-weil-an-anthology"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 97,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "freedom",
          "slug": "freedom",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom"
        },
        {
          "name": "obedience",
          "slug": "obedience",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/obedience"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Simone_Weil#The_Needs_of_the_Soul_(1949)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:13"
    },
    {
      "id": "b129cc2d-10a1-470e-b470-927b8d84e5e3",
      "slug": "he-was-obeyed",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-conrad/heart-of-darkness/he-was-obeyed",
      "text": "He was obeyed, yet he inspired neither love nor fear, nor even respect. He inspired uneasiness. That was it! Uneasiness. Not a definite mistrust — just uneasiness — nothing more. You have no idea how effective such a... a... faculty can be. He had no genius for organizing, for initiative, or for order even. That was evident in such things as the deplorable state of the station. He had no learning, and no intelligence. His position had come to him — why? Perhaps because he was never ill . . . He had served three terms of three years out there . . . Because triumphant health in the general rout of constitutions is a kind of power in itself.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Joseph Conrad",
        "slug": "joseph-conrad",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-conrad"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Heart of Darkness",
        "slug": "heart-of-darkness",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-conrad/heart-of-darkness"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Heart_of_Darkness#Part_I",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:12"
    },
    {
      "id": "c94f4968-bab1-4c54-af6f-a5830f8fe711",
      "slug": "its-better-to-teach",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/octavia-e-butler/parable-of-the-sower/its-better-to-teach",
      "text": "It’s better to teach people than to scare them, Lauren. If you scare them and nothing happens, they lose their fear, and you lose some of your authority with them.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Octavia E. Butler",
        "slug": "octavia-e-butler",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/octavia-e-butler"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Parable of the Sower",
        "slug": "parable-of-the-sower",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/octavia-e-butler/parable-of-the-sower"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 65,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "fear",
          "slug": "fear",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear"
        },
        {
          "name": "education",
          "slug": "education",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/education"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Octavia_Butler#Parable_of_the_Sower_(1993)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:10"
    },
    {
      "id": "b39dd24e-c0f5-47fd-a5af-4fdbf017a3dd",
      "slug": "all-struggles-are",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/octavia-e-butler/parable-of-the-sower/all-struggles-are",
      "text": "All struggles\n\nAre essentially\n\nPower struggles.\n\nWho will rule,\n\nWho will lead,\n\nWho will define,\n\nrefine,\n\nconfine,\n\ndesign,\n\nWho will dominate.\n\nAll struggles\n\nAre essentially\n\nPower struggles,\n\nAnd most\n\nare no more intellectual\n\nthan two rams\n\nknocking their heads together.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Octavia E. Butler",
        "slug": "octavia-e-butler",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/octavia-e-butler"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Parable of the Sower",
        "slug": "parable-of-the-sower",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/octavia-e-butler/parable-of-the-sower"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 94,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Octavia_Butler#Parable_of_the_Sower_(1993)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:10"
    },
    {
      "id": "39863a37-6db4-4e0b-bb1a-443c04836c9f",
      "slug": "the-only-way",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/octavia-e-butler/parable-of-the-sower/the-only-way",
      "text": "The only way to prove to yourself that you have power is to use it",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Octavia E. Butler",
        "slug": "octavia-e-butler",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/octavia-e-butler"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Parable of the Sower",
        "slug": "parable-of-the-sower",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/octavia-e-butler/parable-of-the-sower"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 143,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Octavia_Butler#Parable_of_the_Sower_(1993)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:10"
    },
    {
      "id": "23e154e2-8936-43a2-aa6f-9d4397a5b3b9",
      "slug": "sometimes-one-must",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/octavia-e-butler/wild-seed/sometimes-one-must",
      "text": "Sometimes, one must become a master to avoid becoming a slave.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Octavia E. Butler",
        "slug": "octavia-e-butler",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/octavia-e-butler"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Wild Seed",
        "slug": "wild-seed",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/octavia-e-butler/wild-seed"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 11,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "slavery",
          "slug": "slavery",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/slavery"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Octavia_Butler#Wild_Seed_(1980)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:09"
    },
    {
      "id": "fff3bd65-a56b-4f5d-8279-e8683b18088b",
      "slug": "a-pet-in-pets",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/octavia-e-butler/mind-of-my-mind/a-pet-in-pets",
      "text": "A pet. In pets, free will was tolerated only as long as the pet owner found it amusing.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Octavia E. Butler",
        "slug": "octavia-e-butler",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/octavia-e-butler"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Mind of My Mind",
        "slug": "mind-of-my-mind",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/octavia-e-butler/mind-of-my-mind"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 344,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "free will",
          "slug": "free-will",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/free-will"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Octavia_Butler#Mind_of_My_Mind_(1977)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:08"
    },
    {
      "id": "fbd56a29-a7f2-4820-8be2-2219984f3249",
      "slug": "the-frog-pool-wanted",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-graves/claudius-the-god/the-frog-pool-wanted",
      "text": "The frog-pool wanted a king.\n\nJove sent them Old King Log.\n\nI have been as deaf and blind and wooden as a log.\n\nThe frog-pool wanted a king.\n\nLet Jove now send them Young King Stork.\n\nCaligula's chief fault: his stork-reign was too brief.\n\nMy chief fault: I have been far too benevolent.\n\nI repaired the ruin my predecessors spread.\n\nI reconciled Rome and the world to monarchy again.\n\nRome is fated to bow to another Caesar.\n\nLet him be mad, bloody, capricious, wasteful, lustful.\n\nKing Stork shall prove again the nature of kings.\n\nBy dulling the blade of tyranny I fell into great error.\n\nBy whetting the same blade I might redeem that error.\n\nViolent disorders call for violent remedies.\n\nYet I am, I must remember, Old King Log.\n\nI shall float inertly in the stagnant pool.\n\nLet all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Robert Graves",
        "slug": "robert-graves",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-graves"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Claudius the God",
        "slug": "claudius-the-god",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-graves/claudius-the-god"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "tyranny",
          "slug": "tyranny",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/tyranny"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Graves#Claudius_the_God_(1935)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:05"
    },
    {
      "id": "7c12b576-f410-4777-81c9-ad5b565abb4e",
      "slug": "you-see-what",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/amy-tan/the-kitchen-gods-wife/you-see-what",
      "text": "\"You see what power is — holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them! Besides, maybe it is true. Maybe Peanut and Little Yu's mother are now big Communists, who knows?\"",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Amy Tan",
        "slug": "amy-tan",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/amy-tan"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Kitchen God's Wife",
        "slug": "the-kitchen-gods-wife",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/amy-tan/the-kitchen-gods-wife"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 387,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "fear",
          "slug": "fear",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Amy_Tan#The_Kitchen_God's_Wife_(1991)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:03"
    },
    {
      "id": "39d90e3d-cd5d-4f95-9aed-7e523940c320",
      "slug": "clever-but-schoolteacher",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/toni-morrison/beloved/clever-but-schoolteacher",
      "text": "Clever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that definitions belonged to the definers — not the defined.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Toni Morrison",
        "slug": "toni-morrison",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/toni-morrison"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Beloved",
        "slug": "beloved",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/toni-morrison/beloved"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "language",
          "slug": "language",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/language"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Toni_Morrison#Beloved_(1987)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:01"
    },
    {
      "id": "167893ec-289b-486b-8268-cd087229e59e",
      "slug": "so-youve-never",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-holt/flying-dutch/so-youve-never",
      "text": "“So you've never had any urge to rule the world, or anything like that?”\n\n“What, me?” Vanderdecker said. “No, I can't say I have. It would be nice to change some things, naturally.”\n\nJane leaned forward and looked serious. “Such as?”\n\nVanderdecker considered. “I don't know,” he said, “now you come to mention it. I can't actually think of anything that even remotely matters. You get such a wonderful sense of perspective at my age.”",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Tom Holt",
        "slug": "tom-holt",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-holt"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Flying Dutch",
        "slug": "flying-dutch",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-holt/flying-dutch"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 130,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "humor",
          "slug": "humor",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor"
        },
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tom_Holt#Flying_Dutch_(1991)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:50:53"
    },
    {
      "id": "bb72529e-f796-4241-9c9f-c082dd0caaa4",
      "slug": "its-all-mirror",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters/its-all-mirror",
      "text": "It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way a gun is power.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Chuck Palahniuk",
        "slug": "chuck-palahniuk",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Invisible Monsters",
        "slug": "invisible-monsters",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/invisible-monsters"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "beauty",
          "slug": "beauty",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/beauty"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Invisible_Monsters#Quotes",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:50:48"
    },
    {
      "id": "e66c99ad-b0c9-40f0-b82f-d2847fbb963e",
      "slug": "as-in-elections",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-brin/glory-season/as-in-elections",
      "text": "As in elections, the law pretended universal rights, while securing the interests of powerful houses.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "David Brin",
        "slug": "david-brin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-brin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Glory Season",
        "slug": "glory-season",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-brin/glory-season"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 553,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "law",
          "slug": "law",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/law"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Brin#Glory_Season_(1993)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:50:45"
    },
    {
      "id": "4bde43cc-5ac9-4e32-a999-518d53808e4b",
      "slug": "its-said-that",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-brin/the-postman/its-said-that",
      "text": "It’s said that “power corrupts,” but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. When they do act, they think of it as service, which has limits. The tyrant, though, seeks mastery, for which he is insatiable, implacable.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "David Brin",
        "slug": "david-brin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-brin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Postman",
        "slug": "the-postman",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-brin/the-postman"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 267,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "corruption",
          "slug": "corruption",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/corruption"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Brin#Section_3,_%E2%80%9CCincinnatus%E2%80%9D",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:50:43"
    },
    {
      "id": "f00f2338-0d40-4fdb-bead-dae440611ad0",
      "slug": "change-comes-from",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/saul-alinsky/rules-for-radicals/change-comes-from",
      "text": "Change comes from power, and power comes from organization. In order to act, people must get together.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Saul Alinsky",
        "slug": "saul-alinsky",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/saul-alinsky"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Rules for Radicals",
        "slug": "rules-for-radicals",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/saul-alinsky/rules-for-radicals"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 113,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "change",
          "slug": "change",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/change"
        },
        {
          "name": "cooperation",
          "slug": "cooperation",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cooperation"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Saul_Alinsky#Rules_for_Radicals:_A_Practical_Primer_for_Realistic_Radicals_(1971)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:50:42"
    },
    {
      "id": "bdd03cc9-4330-4c7d-847b-c7d566ca60bb",
      "slug": "always-remember-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/saul-alinsky/rules-for-radicals/always-remember-the",
      "text": "Always remember the first rule of power tactics: Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have. The second rule is: Never go outside the experience of your people. When an action or tactic is outside the experience of the people, it results in confusion, fear, and retreat. [...] The third rule is: Whenever possible go outside of the experience of the enemy. Here you want to cause confusion, fear, and retreat.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Saul Alinsky",
        "slug": "saul-alinsky",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/saul-alinsky"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Rules for Radicals",
        "slug": "rules-for-radicals",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/saul-alinsky/rules-for-radicals"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 126,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Saul_Alinsky#Rules_for_Radicals:_A_Practical_Primer_for_Realistic_Radicals_(1971)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:50:42"
    },
    {
      "id": "644b18d3-f78f-4034-9ba7-fc3d38ae76ac",
      "slug": "in-this-world",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/saul-alinsky/rules-for-radicals/in-this-world",
      "text": "In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of \"the common good\" and then acted out in life on the basis of the common greed. In this world irrationality clings to man like his shadow so that the right things get done for the wrong reasons—afterwards, we dredge up the right reasons for justification. It is a world not of angels but of angles, where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles; a world where we are always moral and our enemies always immoral; a world where \"reconciliation\" means that when one side gets the power and the other side gets reconciled to it, then we have reconciliation.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Saul Alinsky",
        "slug": "saul-alinsky",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/saul-alinsky"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Rules for Radicals",
        "slug": "rules-for-radicals",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/saul-alinsky/rules-for-radicals"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 13,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        },
        {
          "name": "hypocrisy",
          "slug": "hypocrisy",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hypocrisy"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Saul_Alinsky#Rules_for_Radicals:_A_Practical_Primer_for_Realistic_Radicals_(1971)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:50:42"
    },
    {
      "id": "353231c3-0f64-491f-8d3f-8af5f7256669",
      "slug": "t-he-fifth-rule",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/saul-alinsky/rules-for-radicals/t-he-fifth-rule",
      "text": "[T]he fifth rule: Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Saul Alinsky",
        "slug": "saul-alinsky",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/saul-alinsky"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Rules for Radicals",
        "slug": "rules-for-radicals",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/saul-alinsky/rules-for-radicals"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 128,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "humor",
          "slug": "humor",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor"
        },
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Saul_Alinsky#Rules_for_Radicals:_A_Practical_Primer_for_Realistic_Radicals_(1971)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:50:42"
    },
    {
      "id": "1c52fb70-3b01-4df9-9d43-fddd15b6ef9c",
      "slug": "the-prince-was",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/saul-alinsky/rules-for-radicals/the-prince-was",
      "text": "The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away.In this book we are concerned with how to create mass organizations to seize power and give it to the people; to realize the democratic dream of equality, justice, peace, cooperation, equal and full opportunities for education, full and useful employment, health, and the creation of those circumstances in which man can have the chance to live by values that give meaning to life.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Saul Alinsky",
        "slug": "saul-alinsky",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/saul-alinsky"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Rules for Radicals",
        "slug": "rules-for-radicals",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/saul-alinsky/rules-for-radicals"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 3,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Saul_Alinsky#Rules_for_Radicals:_A_Practical_Primer_for_Realistic_Radicals_(1971)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:50:42"
    },
    {
      "id": "84cb2efc-0e98-4c49-9d74-27e0d8e834ca",
      "slug": "ignorance-is-king",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/walter-m-miller-jr/a-canticle-for-leibowitz/ignorance-is-king",
      "text": "\"Ignorance is king. Many would not profit by his abdication. Many enrich themselves by means of his dark monarchy. They are his Court, and in his name they defraud and govern, enrich themselves and perpetuate their power. Even literacy they fear, for the written word is another channel of communication that might cause their enemies to become united. Their weapons are keen-honed, and they use them with skill. They will press the battle upon the world when their interests are threatened, and the violence which follows will last until the structure of society as it now exists is leveled to rubble, and a new society emerges. I am sorry: But that is how I see it.\"",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Walter M. Miller Jr.",
        "slug": "walter-m-miller-jr",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/walter-m-miller-jr"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Canticle for Leibowitz",
        "slug": "a-canticle-for-leibowitz",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/walter-m-miller-jr/a-canticle-for-leibowitz"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "knowledge",
          "slug": "knowledge",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/knowledge"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Walter_M._Miller_Jr.#Fiat_Lux",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:50:41"
    },
    {
      "id": "373dd082-6dfd-4fc9-bc6b-2b6a9176babd",
      "slug": "it-was-said",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/walter-m-miller-jr/a-canticle-for-leibowitz/it-was-said",
      "text": "It was said that God, in order to test mankind which had become swelled with pride as in the time of Noah, had commanded the wise men of that age, among them the Blessed Leibowitz, to devise great engines of war such as had never before been upon the Earth, weapons of such might that they contained the very fires of Hell, and that God had suffered these magi to place the weapons in the hands of princes, and to say to each prince: \"Only because the enemies have such a thing have we devised this for thee, in order that they may know that thou hast it also, and fear to strike. See to it, m'Lord, that thou fearest them as much as they shall now fear thee, that none may unleash this dread thing which we have wrought.\" But the princes, putting the words of their wise men to naught, thought each to himself: If I but strike quickly enough, and in secret, I shall destroy these others in their sleep, and there will be none to fight back; the earth shall be mine.\n\nSuch was the folly of princes, and there followed the Flame Deluge.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Walter M. Miller Jr.",
        "slug": "walter-m-miller-jr",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/walter-m-miller-jr"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Canticle for Leibowitz",
        "slug": "a-canticle-for-leibowitz",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/walter-m-miller-jr/a-canticle-for-leibowitz"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "nuclear weapons",
          "slug": "nuclear-weapons",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/nuclear-weapons"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Walter_M._Miller_Jr.#Fiat_Homo",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:50:41"
    },
    {
      "id": "50f90566-3fb9-4e6f-9c0f-d433e782e3ec",
      "slug": "i-set-an-example",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-robbins/even-cowgirls-get-the-blues/i-set-an-example",
      "text": "I set an example. That's all anyone can do. I'm sorry the cowgirls didn't pay better attention, but I couldn't force them to notice me. I've lived most of my entire adult life outside the law, and never have I compromised with authority. But neither have I gone out and picked fights with authority. That's stupid. They're waiting for that; they invite it; it helps keep them powerful. Authority is to be ridiculed, outwitted and avoided. And it's fairly easy to do all three. If you believe in peace, act peacefully; if you believe in love, acting lovingly; if you believe every which way, then act every which way, that's perfectly valid — but don't go out trying to sell your beliefs to the system. You end up contradicting what you profess to believe in, and you set a bum example. If you want to change the world, change yourself.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Tom Robbins",
        "slug": "tom-robbins",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-robbins"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues",
        "slug": "even-cowgirls-get-the-blues",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-robbins/even-cowgirls-get-the-blues"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 416,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "change",
          "slug": "change",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/change"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tom_Robbins#Even_Cowgirls_Get_the_Blues_(1976)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:50:37"
    },
    {
      "id": "3938cffe-9911-4cc1-aee7-3d5f9ba3fb09",
      "slug": "no-man-ruleth",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-kempis/the-imitation-of-christ/no-man-ruleth",
      "text": "No man ruleth safely but that he is willingly ruled.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Thomas Kempis",
        "slug": "thomas-kempis",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-kempis"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Imitation of Christ",
        "slug": "the-imitation-of-christ",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-kempis/the-imitation-of-christ"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "obedience",
          "slug": "obedience",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/obedience"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_%C3%A0_Kempis#The_Imitation_of_Christ_(c._1418)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:50:26"
    },
    {
      "id": "a53569d2-b6ad-4ecc-b601-d5214675c9f3",
      "slug": "persecution-of-powerless",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/hannah-arendt/the-origins-of-totalitarianism/persecution-of-powerless",
      "text": "Persecution of powerless or power-losing groups may not be a very pleasant spectacle, but it does not spring from human meanness alone. What makes men obey or tolerate real power and, on the other hand, hate people who have wealth without power, is the rational instinct that power has a certain function and is of some general use. Even exploitation and oppression still make society work and establish some kind of order. Only wealth without power or aloofness without a policy are felt to be parasitical, useless, revolting, because such conditions cut all the threads which tie men together. Wealth which does not exploit lacks even the relationship which exists between exploiter and exploited; aloofness without policy does not imply even the minimum concern of the oppressor for the oppressed.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Hannah Arendt",
        "slug": "hannah-arendt",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/hannah-arendt"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Origins of Totalitarianism",
        "slug": "the-origins-of-totalitarianism",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/hannah-arendt/the-origins-of-totalitarianism"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "wealth",
          "slug": "wealth",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/wealth"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hannah_Arendt#The_Origins_of_Totalitarianism_(1951)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:50:23"
    },
    {
      "id": "8bfeab63-eb4b-41a6-8ce8-4c195ac2b83e",
      "slug": "real-power-begins",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/hannah-arendt/the-origins-of-totalitarianism/real-power-begins",
      "text": "Real power begins where secrecy begins.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Hannah Arendt",
        "slug": "hannah-arendt",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/hannah-arendt"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Origins of Totalitarianism",
        "slug": "the-origins-of-totalitarianism",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/hannah-arendt/the-origins-of-totalitarianism"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "secrets",
          "slug": "secrets",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/secrets"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hannah_Arendt#The_Origins_of_Totalitarianism_(1951)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:50:23"
    },
    {
      "id": "c1cbbad4-cf75-41eb-92da-42cba47c5014",
      "slug": "the-protracted-struggle",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/slavoj-zizek/less-than-nothing/the-protracted-struggle",
      "text": "The protracted struggle which dragged on in Egypt was not a conflict of visions, but the conflict between a vision of freedom, the \"eternal\" Platonic Idea of Freedom, and a blind clinging to power ready to use all means possible—terror, food deprivation, exhaustion, bribery—to crush the will to freedom.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Slavoj Žižek",
        "slug": "slavoj-zizek",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/slavoj-zizek"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Less Than Nothing",
        "slug": "less-than-nothing",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/slavoj-zizek/less-than-nothing"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 35,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "freedom",
          "slug": "freedom",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Slavoj_%C5%BDi%C5%BEek#Less_Than_Nothing_(2012)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:50:20"
    },
    {
      "id": "bf90dad9-b0d8-456d-9586-3fda0c8e85f7",
      "slug": "cromwell-the-kings",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-bolt/a-man-for-all-seasons/cromwell-the-kings",
      "text": "Cromwell: The King's a man of conscience and he wants either Sir Thomas More to bless his marriage or Sir Thomas More destroyed.\n\nRich: They seem odd alternatives, Secretary.\n\nCromwell: Do they? That's because you're not a man of conscience. If the King destroys a man, that's proof to the King that it must have been a bad man, the kind of man a man of conscience ought to destroy — and of course a bad man's blessing's not worth having. So either will do.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Robert Bolt",
        "slug": "robert-bolt",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-bolt"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Man for All Seasons",
        "slug": "a-man-for-all-seasons",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-bolt/a-man-for-all-seasons"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "conscience",
          "slug": "conscience",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/conscience"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Bolt#A_Man_for_All_Seasons_(1966)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:50:20"
    },
    {
      "id": "0209c564-235b-4783-80ba-4ffa44a9e19f",
      "slug": "nobody-can-rule",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/slavoj-zizek/the-sublime-object-of-ideology/nobody-can-rule",
      "text": "'Nobody can rule innocently,' as Saint-Just puts it. And in totalitarianism, the Party becomes again the very subject who, being the immediate embodiment of the People can rule innocently. It is not by accident that the real-socialist countries call themselves 'people's democracies.'",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Slavoj Žižek",
        "slug": "slavoj-zizek",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/slavoj-zizek"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Sublime Object of Ideology",
        "slug": "the-sublime-object-of-ideology",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/slavoj-zizek/the-sublime-object-of-ideology"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "totalitarianism",
          "slug": "totalitarianism",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/totalitarianism"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Slavoj_%C5%BDi%C5%BEek#The_Sublime_Object_of_Ideology_(1989)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:50:18"
    },
    {
      "id": "a06df7ed-61c1-479c-bc5a-e27e8094539c",
      "slug": "i-sense-a-learning",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/dbc-pierre/vernon-god-little/i-sense-a-learning",
      "text": "I sense a learning: that much dumber people than you end up in charge. Look at the way things are. I'm no fucken genius or anything, but these spazzos are in charge of my every twitch. What I'm starting to think is maybe only the dumb are safe in this world, the ones who roam with the herd, without thinking about every little thing. But see me? I have to think about every little fucken thing.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "DBC Pierre",
        "slug": "dbc-pierre",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/dbc-pierre"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Vernon God Little",
        "slug": "vernon-god-little",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/dbc-pierre/vernon-god-little"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "stupidity",
          "slug": "stupidity",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/stupidity"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Vernon_God_Little#Act_II._How_I_spent_my_summer_vacation",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:50:14"
    },
    {
      "id": "2752c6fe-5dc0-4b85-ba55-d5d3930b8171",
      "slug": "they-have-a-proverb",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-george-bulwer-lytton/the-coming-race/they-have-a-proverb",
      "text": "They have a proverb, the pithiness of which is much lost in this paraphrase, “No happiness without order, no order without authority, no authority without unity.” (Ch IX)",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Edward George Bulwer-Lytton",
        "slug": "edward-george-bulwer-lytton",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-george-bulwer-lytton"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Coming Race",
        "slug": "the-coming-race",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-george-bulwer-lytton/the-coming-race"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "happiness",
          "slug": "happiness",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/happiness"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Coming_Race#Quotes",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:50:09"
    },
    {
      "id": "d9f2e91c-4782-4eae-8d39-1b7e3200f686",
      "slug": "there-are-men",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexander-hamilton/the-federalist-papers/there-are-men",
      "text": "There are men who could neither be distressed nor won into a sacrifice of their duty; but this stern virtue is the growth of few soils; and in the main it will be found that a power over a man's support is a power over his will. If it were necessary to confirm so plain a truth by facts, examples would not be wanting, even in this country, of the intimidation or seduction of the Executive by the terrors or allurements of the pecuniary arrangements of the legislative body.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Alexander Hamilton",
        "slug": "alexander-hamilton",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexander-hamilton"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Federalist Papers",
        "slug": "the-federalist-papers",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexander-hamilton/the-federalist-papers"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "money",
          "slug": "money",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/money"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alexander_Hamilton#The_Federalist_Papers_(1787%E2%80%931788)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:50:06"
    },
    {
      "id": "29d02fb4-9c86-41a6-ad7e-d14fe55173f5",
      "slug": "the-fabric-of-american",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexander-hamilton/the-federalist-papers/the-fabric-of-american",
      "text": "The fabric of American Empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of National power ought to flow immediately from that pure original fountain of all legitimate authority.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Alexander Hamilton",
        "slug": "alexander-hamilton",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexander-hamilton"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Federalist Papers",
        "slug": "the-federalist-papers",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexander-hamilton/the-federalist-papers"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "democracy",
          "slug": "democracy",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/democracy"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alexander_Hamilton#The_Federalist_Papers_(1787%E2%80%931788)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:50:06"
    },
    {
      "id": "16349a1f-3c06-45ca-9902-e0668ecfb2b4",
      "slug": "in-the-general",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexander-hamilton/the-federalist-papers/in-the-general",
      "text": "In the general course of human nature, a power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Alexander Hamilton",
        "slug": "alexander-hamilton",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexander-hamilton"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Federalist Papers",
        "slug": "the-federalist-papers",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexander-hamilton/the-federalist-papers"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alexander_Hamilton#The_Federalist_Papers_(1787%E2%80%931788)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:50:06"
    },
    {
      "id": "6d852036-e83b-4f1f-8bd0-90feb6c3f604",
      "slug": "the-rights-of-neutrality",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexander-hamilton/the-federalist-papers/the-rights-of-neutrality",
      "text": "The rights of neutrality will only be respected, when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Alexander Hamilton",
        "slug": "alexander-hamilton",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexander-hamilton"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Federalist Papers",
        "slug": "the-federalist-papers",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexander-hamilton/the-federalist-papers"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "the state",
          "slug": "the-state",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-state"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alexander_Hamilton#The_Federalist_Papers_(1787%E2%80%931788)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:50:05"
    },
    {
      "id": "e1766dc8-d2c9-4674-a1bf-ffa726c1bea3",
      "slug": "magics-far-too",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/witches-abroad/magics-far-too",
      "text": "Magic's far too important to be used for rulin' people. (p. 316)",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Terry Pratchett",
        "slug": "terry-pratchett",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Witches Abroad",
        "slug": "witches-abroad",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/witches-abroad"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "magic",
          "slug": "magic",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/magic"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Witches_Abroad#Quotes",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:49:58"
    },
    {
      "id": "10766cd0-600d-4fd7-bdb7-b553c29acdb0",
      "slug": "the-nobles-of-genua",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/witches-abroad/the-nobles-of-genua",
      "text": "The nobles of Genua had enough experience to know what it means when a ruler says something is not compulsory. (p. 325).",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Terry Pratchett",
        "slug": "terry-pratchett",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Witches Abroad",
        "slug": "witches-abroad",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/witches-abroad"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "humor",
          "slug": "humor",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor"
        },
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Witches_Abroad#Quotes",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:49:58"
    },
    {
      "id": "92b4600c-bcfd-4f49-adea-5f8699e000fe",
      "slug": "if-you-wanted",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/witches-abroad/if-you-wanted",
      "text": "If you wanted to get anywhere in this world—and she'd decided, right at the start, that she wanted to get as far as it was possible to go—you wore names lightly, and you took power anywhere you found it. She had buried three husbands, and at least two of them had already been dead. (p. 14)",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Terry Pratchett",
        "slug": "terry-pratchett",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Witches Abroad",
        "slug": "witches-abroad",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/witches-abroad"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "humor",
          "slug": "humor",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor"
        },
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "ambition",
          "slug": "ambition",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/ambition"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Witches_Abroad#Quotes",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:49:57"
    },
    {
      "id": "1dd679fb-1cd1-4b58-9c36-e7000f946d01",
      "slug": "that-was-how",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/guards-guards/that-was-how",
      "text": "That was how you got to be a power in the land, he thought. You never cared a toss about whatever anyone else thought and you were never, ever, uncertain about anything. (p. 348)",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Terry Pratchett",
        "slug": "terry-pratchett",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Guards! Guards!",
        "slug": "guards-guards",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/guards-guards"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "self-confidence",
          "slug": "self-confidence",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/self-confidence"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Guards!_Guards!#Quotes",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:49:56"
    },
    {
      "id": "0e89e27e-a531-47fd-abb9-5436fc747889",
      "slug": "the-senior-wizards",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/reaper-man/the-senior-wizards",
      "text": "The senior wizards know that the proper purpose of magic is to form a social pyramid with the wizards on top of it, eating big dinners. (p. 189)",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Terry Pratchett",
        "slug": "terry-pratchett",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Reaper Man",
        "slug": "reaper-man",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/reaper-man"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "humor",
          "slug": "humor",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor"
        },
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "magic",
          "slug": "magic",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/magic"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Reaper_Man#Quotes",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:49:56"
    },
    {
      "id": "5bc5a9dd-07fd-429e-b970-8ac99cbf54a7",
      "slug": "it-must-be-something",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/guards-guards/it-must-be-something",
      "text": "It must be something about high office. The altitude sends people mad. (p. 286)",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Terry Pratchett",
        "slug": "terry-pratchett",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Guards! Guards!",
        "slug": "guards-guards",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/guards-guards"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "humor",
          "slug": "humor",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor"
        },
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "madness",
          "slug": "madness",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/madness"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Guards!_Guards!#Quotes",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:49:55"
    },
    {
      "id": "7b568378-4f72-4202-9187-aaa829afb2bf",
      "slug": "the-current-patrician",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/sourcery/the-current-patrician",
      "text": "The current Patrician ... He did of course sometimes have people horribly tortured to death, but this was considered to be perfectly acceptable behaviour for a civic ruler and generally approved of by the overwhelming majority of citizens. †",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Terry Pratchett",
        "slug": "terry-pratchett",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Sourcery",
        "slug": "sourcery",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/sourcery"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 69,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "humor",
          "slug": "humor",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor"
        },
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sourcery#Quotes",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:49:53"
    },
    {
      "id": "b9328eec-bd68-4d34-8ea9-aff51ba66e60",
      "slug": "whats-the-use",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/mort/whats-the-use",
      "text": "What's the use of having the power if you don't wield it? Man doesn't show you respect, you don't leave enough of his damn inn to roast chestnuts on, understand?",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Terry Pratchett",
        "slug": "terry-pratchett",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Mort",
        "slug": "mort",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/mort"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mort#Quotes",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:49:52"
    },
    {
      "id": "219b6dc1-bea1-44c8-ad12-e857aa314af7",
      "slug": "at-the-back",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/the-colour-of-magic/at-the-back",
      "text": "At the back of his mind a bad feeling began to grow. He thought about how it might be to be, say, a fox confronted with an angry sheep. A sheep, moreover, that could afford to employ wolves.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Terry Pratchett",
        "slug": "terry-pratchett",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Colour of Magic",
        "slug": "the-colour-of-magic",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/the-colour-of-magic"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "humor",
          "slug": "humor",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor"
        },
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Colour_of_Magic#Quotes",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:49:50"
    },
    {
      "id": "09484686-7a04-47dd-9d86-69cf03140111",
      "slug": "you-have-power",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/walter-scott/ivanhoe/you-have-power",
      "text": "You have power, rank, command, influence; we have wealth, the source both of our strength and weakness; the value of these toys, ten times multiplied, would not influence half so much as your slightest wish.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Walter Scott",
        "slug": "walter-scott",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/walter-scott"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Ivanhoe",
        "slug": "ivanhoe",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/walter-scott/ivanhoe"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "money",
          "slug": "money",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/money"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Walter_Scott#Ivanhoe_(1819)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:49:50"
    },
    {
      "id": "acc8de57-37ef-4b9a-872e-f72a36396a04",
      "slug": "for-he-that",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/walter-scott/ivanhoe/for-he-that",
      "text": "For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Walter Scott",
        "slug": "walter-scott",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/walter-scott"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Ivanhoe",
        "slug": "ivanhoe",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/walter-scott/ivanhoe"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "kindness",
          "slug": "kindness",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/kindness"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Walter_Scott#Ivanhoe_(1819)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:49:49"
    },
    {
      "id": "4635acb5-254a-4a97-9d0b-82fbf3f4dc4b",
      "slug": "the-sure-sign",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/clive-james/north-face-of-soho/the-sure-sign",
      "text": "The sure sign of a weak man who ascends to glory is that he can't tolerate having strong men around him.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Clive James",
        "slug": "clive-james",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/clive-james"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "North Face of Soho",
        "slug": "north-face-of-soho",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/clive-james/north-face-of-soho"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 126,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Clive_James#North_Face_of_Soho_(2006)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:49:48"
    },
    {
      "id": "db9a9ead-8d6b-4867-b4ea-145c43421bda",
      "slug": "it-is-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-hughes/nothing-if-not-critical/it-is-the",
      "text": "It is the nature of carnivores to get power and then, having disposed of their enemies, to deploy the emollient powers of Great Art to make themselves look like herbivores.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Robert Hughes",
        "slug": "robert-hughes",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-hughes"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nothing If Not Critical",
        "slug": "nothing-if-not-critical",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-hughes/nothing-if-not-critical"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "art",
          "slug": "art",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/art"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Hughes#Nothing_If_Not_Critical_(1991)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:49:38"
    },
    {
      "id": "c0b085e8-de72-421e-8420-9bc92c78df83",
      "slug": "what-makes-you",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-baxter/evolution/what-makes-you",
      "text": "What makes you think anybody with power will listen to a bunch of scientists? They never have before.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Stephen Baxter",
        "slug": "stephen-baxter",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-baxter"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Evolution",
        "slug": "evolution",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-baxter/evolution"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 513,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "science",
          "slug": "science",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/science"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stephen_Baxter#Evolution_(2002)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:49:24"
    },
    {
      "id": "75bb9128-4163-42e6-b934-0a7963036952",
      "slug": "you-know-in-principle",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-baxter/ring/you-know-in-principle",
      "text": "“You know, in principle, why our world is as it is. Isn’t that sufficient? Is it really necessary for you to understand every detail?”\n\nBut if I don’t understand, Morrow thought sourly, then you can control me. Arbitrarily. And that’s what I find hard to accept.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Stephen Baxter",
        "slug": "stephen-baxter",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-baxter"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Ring",
        "slug": "ring",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-baxter/ring"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 649,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "knowledge",
          "slug": "knowledge",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/knowledge"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stephen_Baxter#Ring_(1994)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:49:24"
    },
    {
      "id": "ed63f0f0-6570-4ffe-b03f-98d871976e8b",
      "slug": "why-should-it",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-baxter/flux/why-should-it",
      "text": "Why should it be so? It was as if humans built such places as this with the sole purpose of finding ways to dominate each other.\n\nMuub listened to Adda’s clumsy explanation of this. “But it’s inevitable,” he said, his face neutral. “You have to have organization—hierarchy—if you are to run the complex, interlinking systems which sustain a society like the City with its hinterland. And only within such a society can man afford art, science, wisdom—even leisure of the most brutish sort, like these Games. And with hierarchies comes power.” He smiled at Adda, condescending once more. “People aren’t very noble, upfluxer. Look around you. Their darker side will find expression in any situation where they can best each other.”",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Stephen Baxter",
        "slug": "stephen-baxter",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-baxter"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Flux",
        "slug": "flux",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-baxter/flux"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 504,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "society",
          "slug": "society",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/society"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stephen_Baxter#Flux_(1993)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:49:23"
    },
    {
      "id": "04ba8c54-a373-4ba8-af68-3d586039a471",
      "slug": "the-robots-are",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/clifford-d-simak/a-choice-of-gods/the-robots-are",
      "text": "The robots are not technologically minded. They were not built to be. They were built to bolster human vanity and pride, to meet a strange longing that seems to be built into the human ego—the need to have other humans (or a reasonable facsimile of other humans) to minister to our wants and needs, human slaves to be dominated, human beings over which a man or woman (or a child) can assert authority, thus building up a false feeling of superiority.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Clifford D. Simak",
        "slug": "clifford-d-simak",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/clifford-d-simak"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Choice of Gods",
        "slug": "a-choice-of-gods",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/clifford-d-simak/a-choice-of-gods"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 6,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "pride",
          "slug": "pride",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/pride"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Clifford_D._Simak#A_Choice_of_Gods_(1972)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:49:01"
    },
    {
      "id": "7c80015b-b7c5-4baa-a8d8-dea6638454b1",
      "slug": "it-was-authority",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/clifford-d-simak/time-is-the-simplest-thing/it-was-authority",
      "text": "It was authority that turned men suspicious and stern-faced. Authority and responsibility which made them not themselves, but a sort of corporate body that tried to think as a corporate body rather than as a person.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Clifford D. Simak",
        "slug": "clifford-d-simak",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/clifford-d-simak"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Time is the Simplest Thing",
        "slug": "time-is-the-simplest-thing",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/clifford-d-simak/time-is-the-simplest-thing"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 245,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "responsibility",
          "slug": "responsibility",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/responsibility"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Clifford_D._Simak#Time_is_the_Simplest_Thing_(1961)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:49:00"
    },
    {
      "id": "2c1c0e53-e40f-45e4-ba2b-17957300ee63",
      "slug": "man-was-engaged",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/clifford-d-simak/city/man-was-engaged",
      "text": "Man was engaged in a mad scramble for power and knowledge, but nowhere is there any hint of what he meant to do with it once he had attained it.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Clifford D. Simak",
        "slug": "clifford-d-simak",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/clifford-d-simak"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "City",
        "slug": "city",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/clifford-d-simak/city"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 120,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "knowledge",
          "slug": "knowledge",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/knowledge"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Clifford_D._Simak#City_(1952)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:48:59"
    },
    {
      "id": "1a2f9093-24e7-402e-8957-0249ffd65f20",
      "slug": "other-nations-use",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/evelyn-waugh/scoop/other-nations-use",
      "text": "Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Evelyn Waugh",
        "slug": "evelyn-waugh",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/evelyn-waugh"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Scoop",
        "slug": "scoop",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/evelyn-waugh/scoop"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "irony",
          "slug": "irony",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/irony"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Evelyn_Waugh#Scoop_(1938)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:48:55"
    },
    {
      "id": "2871f689-8618-47fd-8c63-9836e72f2960",
      "slug": "i-want-you",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/dave-eggers/the-circle/i-want-you",
      "text": "\"I want you to connect these dots and see if you see what I see. Picture this. The Circle has been devouring all competitors for years, correct? It only makes the company stronger. Already 90 percent of the world's searches go through the Circle. Without competitors, this will increase. Soon it'll be nearly 100 percent. Now, you and I both know that if you can control the flow of information, you can control everything. You can control most of what anyone sees and knows. If you want to bury some piece of information, permanently, that's two seconds' work. If you want to ruin anyone, that's five minutes' work. How can anyone rise up against the Circle if they control all the information and access to it? They want everyone to have a Circle account, and they're well on their way to making it illegal not to. What happens then? What happens when they control all searches, and have full access to all data about every person? When they know every move everyone makes? When all monetary transactions, all health and DNA information, every piece of one's life, good or bad, when every word uttered flows through one channel?\"",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Dave Eggers",
        "slug": "dave-eggers",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/dave-eggers"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Circle",
        "slug": "the-circle",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/dave-eggers/the-circle"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 487,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "privacy",
          "slug": "privacy",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/privacy"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dave_Eggers#The_Circle_(2013)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:48:53"
    },
    {
      "id": "210c8223-a644-4a04-a9d4-39361c1a9a71",
      "slug": "on-the-heights",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-jordan/the-path-of-daggers/on-the-heights",
      "text": "On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Robert Jordan",
        "slug": "robert-jordan",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-jordan"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Path Of Daggers",
        "slug": "the-path-of-daggers",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-jordan/the-path-of-daggers"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Jordan#The_Path_of_Daggers_(20_October_1998)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:48:48"
    },
    {
      "id": "e69e4e1f-36ab-42b5-a5fc-1fb61f7887d8",
      "slug": "unlike-so-many",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-steel-tsar/unlike-so-many",
      "text": "Unlike so many politicians or military leaders they made no attempt to justify their mistakes, to cling to power. For them power held enormous responsibility and was merely invested in them temporarily.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Michael Moorcock",
        "slug": "michael-moorcock",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Steel Tsar",
        "slug": "the-steel-tsar",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-steel-tsar"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 370,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "responsibility",
          "slug": "responsibility",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/responsibility"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michael_Moorcock#The_Steel_Tsar_(1981)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:48:44"
    },
    {
      "id": "e7d37aef-aab1-48a3-bdf1-bf14e1ac289d",
      "slug": "its-all-a-question",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-steel-tsar/its-all-a-question",
      "text": "It’s all a question of power and rarely a question of justice.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Michael Moorcock",
        "slug": "michael-moorcock",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Steel Tsar",
        "slug": "the-steel-tsar",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-steel-tsar"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 324,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "justice",
          "slug": "justice",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/justice"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michael_Moorcock#The_Steel_Tsar_(1981)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:48:43"
    },
    {
      "id": "e939a69b-a621-477d-8249-6f97980a616e",
      "slug": "for-years-my-lady",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-dragon-in-the-sword/for-years-my-lady",
      "text": "“For years my lady made her plans. And when the time came to put them into action, how wonderfully she was able to achieve her ambitions.”\n\n“Only because few rational people can ever begin to understand such a lust for power,” said von Bek feelingly. “There is nothing more puerile than the mind of a tyrant.”",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Michael Moorcock",
        "slug": "michael-moorcock",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Dragon in the Sword",
        "slug": "the-dragon-in-the-sword",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-dragon-in-the-sword"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 629,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "tyranny",
          "slug": "tyranny",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/tyranny"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michael_Moorcock#The_Dragon_in_the_Sword_(1986)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:48:39"
    },
    {
      "id": "7a678eda-45f9-4a50-beeb-e4f0ff8878b9",
      "slug": "i-could-scarcely",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-dragon-in-the-sword/i-could-scarcely",
      "text": "I could scarcely believe that these were the men who had done so much to influence the course of my own world’s history. It now seemed obvious that all of them were drugged in some way. They were acting like silly children. And yet I suppose I should have realized that it is in the nature of all such creatures to be at heart infantile. Only children believe they can achieve enormous power over the world without paying a price for that power. And the price so often is the sanity of the one who seeks it.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Michael Moorcock",
        "slug": "michael-moorcock",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Dragon in the Sword",
        "slug": "the-dragon-in-the-sword",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-dragon-in-the-sword"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 641,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "madness",
          "slug": "madness",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/madness"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michael_Moorcock#The_Dragon_in_the_Sword_(1986)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:48:39"
    },
    {
      "id": "308533a2-7b0e-4229-a084-29367ee4eb8b",
      "slug": "if-the-people",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-eternal-champion/if-the-people",
      "text": "If the people at the top think that reaching for a gun will solve the problem, why shouldn’t the people at the bottom think the same?",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Michael Moorcock",
        "slug": "michael-moorcock",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Eternal Champion",
        "slug": "the-eternal-champion",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-eternal-champion"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "violence",
          "slug": "violence",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/violence"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michael_Moorcock#The_Eternal_Champion_(1970)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:48:38"
    },
    {
      "id": "a3438560-5d4e-4e5e-a51b-787db9a8d710",
      "slug": "yesterdays-underdog-is-tomorrows",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-condition-of-muzak/yesterdays-underdog-is-tomorrows",
      "text": "Yesterday’s underdog is tomorrow’s tyrant.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Michael Moorcock",
        "slug": "michael-moorcock",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Condition of Muzak",
        "slug": "the-condition-of-muzak",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-condition-of-muzak"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 738,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "tyranny",
          "slug": "tyranny",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/tyranny"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michael_Moorcock#The_Condition_of_Muzak_(1977)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:48:37"
    },
    {
      "id": "4c392559-2b90-4559-adbb-7689a588788f",
      "slug": "some-try-to-understand",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-condition-of-muzak/some-try-to-understand",
      "text": "Some try to understand the world, while others seek to impose their understanding on it. Unfortunately, Mr. Smiles, these latter folk are those least equipped to perform the operation. Like Frankenstein, my dear Mr. Smiles, they produce a monster.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Michael Moorcock",
        "slug": "michael-moorcock",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Condition of Muzak",
        "slug": "the-condition-of-muzak",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-condition-of-muzak"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 790,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "knowledge",
          "slug": "knowledge",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/knowledge"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michael_Moorcock#The_Condition_of_Muzak_(1977)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:48:37"
    },
    {
      "id": "76ae3de1-3950-4ccb-8a9e-48155be0396a",
      "slug": "hes-so-slow",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-fowles/the-collector/hes-so-slow",
      "text": "He’s so slow, so unimaginative, so lifeless. Like zinc white. I see it’s a sort of tyranny he has over me. He forces me to be changeable, to act. To show off. The hateful tyranny of weak people.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "John Fowles",
        "slug": "john-fowles",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-fowles"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Collector",
        "slug": "the-collector",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-fowles/the-collector"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Fowles#The_Collector_(1963)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:48:29"
    },
    {
      "id": "1f821230-b8f0-4ecf-98dc-38c73ccabbd6",
      "slug": "our-political-system",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-derbyshire/we-are-doomed/our-political-system",
      "text": "Our political system is now run by the Big People for their own interests. If they ever deign to notice the Little People, it is with disdain and contempt.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "John Derbyshire",
        "slug": "john-derbyshire",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-derbyshire"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "We Are Doomed",
        "slug": "we-are-doomed",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-derbyshire/we-are-doomed"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Derbyshire#We_Are_Doomed:_Reclaiming_Conservative_Pessimism_(2009)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:48:28"
    },
    {
      "id": "aefcac14-a088-44f9-aa0f-583418d1d21d",
      "slug": "the-danger-in-media",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lawrence-lessig/free-culture/the-danger-in-media",
      "text": "The danger in media concentration comes not from the concentration, but instead from the feudalism that this concentration, tied to the change in copyright, produces. It is not just that there are a few powerful companies that control an ever expanding slice of the media. It is that this concentration can call upon an equally bloated range of rights — property rights of a historically extreme form — that makes their bigness bad.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Lawrence Lessig",
        "slug": "lawrence-lessig",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lawrence-lessig"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Free Culture",
        "slug": "free-culture",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lawrence-lessig/free-culture"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "media",
          "slug": "media",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/media"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lawrence_Lessig#Free_Culture_(2004)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:48:25"
    },
    {
      "id": "52e69633-3eb0-4ffa-ab5d-86a98106de97",
      "slug": "there-has-never",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lawrence-lessig/free-culture/there-has-never",
      "text": "There has never been a time in history when more of our \"culture\" was as \"owned\" as it is now. And yet there has never been a time when the concentration of power to control the uses of culture has been as unquestioningly accepted as it is now.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Lawrence Lessig",
        "slug": "lawrence-lessig",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lawrence-lessig"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Free Culture",
        "slug": "free-culture",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lawrence-lessig/free-culture"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "culture",
          "slug": "culture",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/culture"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lawrence_Lessig#Free_Culture_(2004)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:48:25"
    },
    {
      "id": "1c218522-0564-4e06-8058-bdd2485c996f",
      "slug": "the-most-powerful",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lawrence-lessig/free-culture/the-most-powerful",
      "text": "The most powerful and sexy and well loved of lobbies really has as its aim not the protection of \"property\" but the rejection of a tradition. Their aim is not simply to protect what is theirs. Their aim is to assure that all there is is what is theirs.\n\nIt is not hard to understand why the warriors take this view. It is not hard to see why it would benefit them if the competition of the public domain tied to the Internet could somehow be quashed.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Lawrence Lessig",
        "slug": "lawrence-lessig",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lawrence-lessig"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Free Culture",
        "slug": "free-culture",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lawrence-lessig/free-culture"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lawrence_Lessig#Free_Culture_(2004)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:48:25"
    },
    {
      "id": "a695bd92-d802-437a-a473-feadbf2b344c",
      "slug": "one-of-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/gene-wolfe/the-sword-of-the-lictor/one-of-the",
      "text": "One of the easiest ways to dominate a man is to demand something he cannot supply.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Gene Wolfe",
        "slug": "gene-wolfe",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/gene-wolfe"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Sword of the Lictor",
        "slug": "the-sword-of-the-lictor",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/gene-wolfe/the-sword-of-the-lictor"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "manipulation",
          "slug": "manipulation",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/manipulation"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Book_of_the_New_Sun#The_Sword_of_the_Lictor_(1982)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:48:24"
    },
    {
      "id": "4f2fc7f0-a7b9-46c5-99b2-87697d7ad87f",
      "slug": "i-have-found",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/gene-wolfe/the-shadow-of-the-torturer/i-have-found",
      "text": "I have found always that the pattern of our guild is repeated [...] in the societies of every trade, so that they are all of them torturers, just as we. His quarry stands to the hunter as our clients to us; those who buy to the tradesman; the enemies of the Commonwealth to the soldier; the governed to the governors; men to women. All love what they destroy.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Gene Wolfe",
        "slug": "gene-wolfe",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/gene-wolfe"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Shadow of the Torturer",
        "slug": "the-shadow-of-the-torturer",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/gene-wolfe/the-shadow-of-the-torturer"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "love",
          "slug": "love",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love"
        },
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Book_of_the_New_Sun#The_Shadow_of_the_Torturer_(1980)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:48:23"
    },
    {
      "id": "2dc74e8e-ba3d-403a-9e7d-afb6e5e50ef6",
      "slug": "the-corporations-that",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chris-hedges/death-of-the-liberal-class/the-corporations-that",
      "text": "The corporations that profit from permanent war need us to be afraid. Fear stops us from objecting to government spending on a bloated military. Fear means we will not ask unpleasant questions of those in power. Fear permits the government to operate in secret. Fear means we are willing to give up our rights and liberties for promises of security. The imposition of fear ensures that the corporations that wrecked the country cannot be challenged. Fear keeps us penned in like livestock.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Chris Hedges",
        "slug": "chris-hedges",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chris-hedges"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Death of the Liberal Class",
        "slug": "death-of-the-liberal-class",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chris-hedges/death-of-the-liberal-class"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "fear",
          "slug": "fear",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Chris_Hedges#The_Death_of_the_Liberal_Class_(2010)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:48:23"
    },
    {
      "id": "118415ec-2371-49bc-a00e-01ee9b43760c",
      "slug": "weak-people-believe",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/gene-wolfe/the-shadow-of-the-torturer/weak-people-believe",
      "text": "Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real. What is the Autarch but a man who believes himself Autarch and makes others believe by the strength of it?",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Gene Wolfe",
        "slug": "gene-wolfe",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/gene-wolfe"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Shadow of the Torturer",
        "slug": "the-shadow-of-the-torturer",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/gene-wolfe/the-shadow-of-the-torturer"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "faith",
          "slug": "faith",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/faith"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Book_of_the_New_Sun#The_Shadow_of_the_Torturer_(1980)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:48:23"
    },
    {
      "id": "6dd19830-24a2-4cca-a53c-59faa3890d07",
      "slug": "what-real-power",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany/neveryona/what-real-power",
      "text": "What real power can buy, of course, is anonymity.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Samuel R. Delany",
        "slug": "samuel-r-delany",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Neveryona",
        "slug": "neveryona",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany/neveryona"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 376,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Samuel_R._Delany#Nevery%C3%B3na_(1983)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:48:20"
    },
    {
      "id": "73387213-3a7b-49c5-98fc-7444cf78410c",
      "slug": "everyone-in-a-position",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany/triton/everyone-in-a-position",
      "text": "Everyone in a position of authority is hysterical, and everyone else is pretending to be asleep.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Samuel R. Delany",
        "slug": "samuel-r-delany",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Triton",
        "slug": "triton",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany/triton"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 54,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "humor",
          "slug": "humor",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor"
        },
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Samuel_R._Delany#Triton_(1976)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:48:19"
    },
    {
      "id": "0c67cc3c-1214-416c-bf16-fcacc8456f90",
      "slug": "he-was-learning",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany/tales-of-neveryon/he-was-learning",
      "text": "He was learning that power—the great power that shattered lives and twisted the course of nations—was like a fog over a meadow at evening. From any distance, it seemed to have a shape, a substance, a color, an edge, yet as you approached it, it seemed to recede before you. Finally, when common sense said you were at its very center, it still seemed just as far away, only by this time it was on all sides, obscuring any vision of the world beyond it.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Samuel R. Delany",
        "slug": "samuel-r-delany",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Tales of Neveryon",
        "slug": "tales-of-neveryon",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany/tales-of-neveryon"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 37,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Samuel_R._Delany#Tales_of_Nev%C3%A8r%C3%BFon_(1979)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:48:19"
    },
    {
      "id": "0a2b4f2d-bd5d-438e-b32f-f061bd227b47",
      "slug": "gorgik-began-to-learn",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany/tales-of-neveryon/gorgik-began-to-learn",
      "text": "Gorgik began to learn that most valuable of lessons without which no social progress is possible: If you are to stay in the good graces of the powerful, you had best, however unobtrusively, please the servants of the powerful.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Samuel R. Delany",
        "slug": "samuel-r-delany",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Tales of Neveryon",
        "slug": "tales-of-neveryon",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany/tales-of-neveryon"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 15,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Samuel_R._Delany#Tales_of_Nev%C3%A8r%C3%BFon_(1979)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:48:19"
    },
    {
      "id": "d2a7399e-822d-4956-85a4-5cd9b6e00e37",
      "slug": "a-lesson-which",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany/the-jewels-of-aptor/a-lesson-which",
      "text": "A lesson which history should have taught us thousands of years ago was finally driven home. No man can wield absolute power over other men and still retain his own mind. For no matter how good his intentions are when he takes up the power, his alternate reason is that freedom, the freedom of other people and ultimately his own, terrifies him. Only a man afraid of freedom would want this power, who could conceive of wielding it. And that fear of freedom will turn him into a slave of this power.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Samuel R. Delany",
        "slug": "samuel-r-delany",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Jewels Of Aptor",
        "slug": "the-jewels-of-aptor",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany/the-jewels-of-aptor"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 133,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "freedom",
          "slug": "freedom",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom"
        },
        {
          "name": "fear",
          "slug": "fear",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Samuel_R._Delany#The_Jewels_of_Aptor_(1962)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:48:15"
    },
    {
      "id": "4fc16638-67e9-489f-99bc-a6622f2bb810",
      "slug": "who-claims-truth",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-pynchon/mason-dixon/who-claims-truth",
      "text": "Who claims Truth, Truth abandons. History is hir'd, or coerc'd, only in Interests that must ever prove base. She is too innocent, to be left within the reach of anyone in Power, — who need but touch her, and all her Credit is in the instant vanish'd, as if it had never been. She needs rather to be tended lovingly and honorably by fabulists and counterfeiters, Ballad-Mongers and Cranks of ev'ry Radius, Masters of Disguise to provide her the Costume, Toilette, and Bearing, and Speech nimble enough to keep her beyond the Desires, or even the Curiosity, of Government.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Thomas Pynchon",
        "slug": "thomas-pynchon",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-pynchon"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Mason & Dixon",
        "slug": "mason-dixon",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-pynchon/mason-dixon"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "truth",
          "slug": "truth",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/truth"
        },
        {
          "name": "history",
          "slug": "history",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/history"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Pynchon#Mason_%26_Dixon_(1997)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:48:10"
    },
    {
      "id": "f0482b9f-e6b5-4c87-92b0-2341d93173f6",
      "slug": "losing-power-utterly",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/fred-hoyle/the-black-cloud/losing-power-utterly",
      "text": "Losing power, utterly and completely, is the most dreadful prospect that a politician can think of. It overshadows everything else.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Fred Hoyle",
        "slug": "fred-hoyle",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/fred-hoyle"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Black Cloud",
        "slug": "the-black-cloud",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/fred-hoyle/the-black-cloud"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 167,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fred_Hoyle#The_Black_Cloud_(1957)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:48:09"
    },
    {
      "id": "7271b4ee-591c-4af9-a911-6e24023ef9ec",
      "slug": "the-great-driving",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-london/the-iron-heel/the-great-driving",
      "text": "The great driving force of the oligarchs is the belief that they are doing right.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Jack London",
        "slug": "jack-london",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-london"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Iron Heel",
        "slug": "the-iron-heel",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-london/the-iron-heel"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "beliefs",
          "slug": "beliefs",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/beliefs"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jack_London#The_Iron_Heel_(1907)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:48:04"
    },
    {
      "id": "f35f67b4-4722-4081-9c64-057227655490",
      "slug": "no-one-can",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-trollope/the-dukes-children/no-one-can",
      "text": "No one can depute authority. It comes too much from personal accidents, and too little from reason or law to be handed over to others.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Anthony Trollope",
        "slug": "anthony-trollope",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-trollope"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Duke's Children",
        "slug": "the-dukes-children",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-trollope/the-dukes-children"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anthony_Trollope#The_Duke's_Children_(1879)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:48:02"
    },
    {
      "id": "6ab641d6-a988-4f1b-a8b8-a30de07e9565",
      "slug": "power-is-so-pleasant",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-trollope/the-prime-minister/power-is-so-pleasant",
      "text": "Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Anthony Trollope",
        "slug": "anthony-trollope",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-trollope"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Prime Minister",
        "slug": "the-prime-minister",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/anthony-trollope/the-prime-minister"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "greed",
          "slug": "greed",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/greed"
        },
        {
          "name": "patriotism",
          "slug": "patriotism",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/patriotism"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anthony_Trollope#The_Prime_Minister_(1876)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:48:01"
    },
    {
      "id": "0f8c10fc-2be1-449a-8fa6-f2f303d16ffa",
      "slug": "it-never-occurred",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/g-chesterton/the-man-who-was-thursday/it-never-occurred",
      "text": "It never occurred to him to be spiritually won over to the enemy. Many moderns, inured to a weak worship of intellect and force, might have wavered in their allegiance under this oppression of a great personality. They might have called Sunday the super-man. If any such creature be conceivable, he looked, indeed, somewhat like it, with his earth-shaking abstraction, as of a stone statue walking. He might have been called something above man, with his large plans, which were too obvious to be detected, with his large face, which was too frank to be understood. But this was a kind of modern meanness to which Syme could not sink even in his extreme morbidity. Like any man, he was coward enough to fear great force; but he was not quite coward enough to admire it.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "G. Chesterton",
        "slug": "g-chesterton",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/g-chesterton"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Man Who Was Thursday",
        "slug": "the-man-who-was-thursday",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/g-chesterton/the-man-who-was-thursday"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "cowardice",
          "slug": "cowardice",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cowardice"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Was_Thursday#Ch._VI_:_The_Exposure",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:54"
    },
    {
      "id": "73d614ce-e3b6-47c4-b999-90b1f749f501",
      "slug": "advanced-cultures-are",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-jacobs/dark-age-ahead/advanced-cultures-are",
      "text": "Advanced cultures are usually sophisticated enough, or have been sophisticated enough at some point in their pasts, to realize that foxes shouldn't be relied on to guard henhouses.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Jane Jacobs",
        "slug": "jane-jacobs",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-jacobs"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Dark Age Ahead",
        "slug": "dark-age-ahead",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-jacobs/dark-age-ahead"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jane_Jacobs#Dark_Age_Ahead_(2004)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:48"
    },
    {
      "id": "66cf3096-923b-4c5a-9034-60fad0afa70c",
      "slug": "the-idea-of-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/laurell-k-hamilton/danse-macabre/the-idea-of-the",
      "text": "\"The idea of the feudal system is that the people on the top take care of the needs of those on the bottom, but I have seldom seen it work that way,\" Wicked said.\n\n\"Yeah,\" I said, \"it's like trickle-down economics; it only works if the people at the top are really good, decent people. The system is only as good as the people in power.\"",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Laurell K. Hamilton",
        "slug": "laurell-k-hamilton",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/laurell-k-hamilton"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Danse Macabre",
        "slug": "danse-macabre",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/laurell-k-hamilton/danse-macabre"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 250,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "economy",
          "slug": "economy",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/economy"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Laurell_K._Hamilton#Danse_Macabre_(2006)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:47"
    },
    {
      "id": "e6b4ecd3-3eea-4ded-b108-d75c9e81b8ff",
      "slug": "the-only-people",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/children-of-the-mind/the-only-people",
      "text": "The only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Orson Scott Card",
        "slug": "orson-scott-card",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Children Of The Mind",
        "slug": "children-of-the-mind",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/children-of-the-mind"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "knowledge",
          "slug": "knowledge",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/knowledge"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Children_of_the_Mind#Quotes",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:45"
    },
    {
      "id": "edbc5bbd-15d9-45e1-9832-25b1887dfcd1",
      "slug": "a-real-god",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/xenocide/a-real-god",
      "text": "A real god doesn’t care about control. A real god already has control of everything that needs controlling. Real gods would want to teach you how to be just like them.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Orson Scott Card",
        "slug": "orson-scott-card",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Xenocide",
        "slug": "xenocide",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/xenocide"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "religion",
          "slug": "religion",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/religion"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Xenocide#Quotes",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:44"
    },
    {
      "id": "df213491-bbad-40af-9fec-476645024e5e",
      "slug": "we-never-forbid",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/xenocide/we-never-forbid",
      "text": "We never forbid where we do not also have the power to prevent.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Orson Scott Card",
        "slug": "orson-scott-card",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Xenocide",
        "slug": "xenocide",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/xenocide"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "law",
          "slug": "law",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/law"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Xenocide#Quotes",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:44"
    },
    {
      "id": "838e77ad-d649-4144-be41-68020cd0c014",
      "slug": "to-day-we-live",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/oswald-spengler/the-decline-of-the-west/to-day-we-live",
      "text": "To-day we live so cowed under the bombardment of this intellectual artillery that hardly anyone can attain to the inward detachment that is required for a clear view of the monstrous drama. The will-to-power operating under a pure democratic disguise has finished off its masterpiece so well that the object's sense of freedom is actually flattered by the most thorough-going enslavement that has ever existed.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Oswald Spengler",
        "slug": "oswald-spengler",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/oswald-spengler"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Decline of the West",
        "slug": "the-decline-of-the-west",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/oswald-spengler/the-decline-of-the-west"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 461,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "freedom",
          "slug": "freedom",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom"
        },
        {
          "name": "democracy",
          "slug": "democracy",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/democracy"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Oswald_Spengler#The_Decline_of_the_West_(1918,_1923)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:42"
    },
    {
      "id": "e5d5433d-f4f1-4524-8f94-62d52949877f",
      "slug": "the-society-which",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/herbert-marcuse/one-dimensional-man/the-society-which",
      "text": "the society which projects and undertakes the technological transformation of nature alters the base of domination by gradually replacing personal dependence (of the slave on the master, the serf on the lord of the manor, the lord on the donor of the fief, etc.) with dependence on the “objective order of things” (on economic laws, the market etc.).",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Herbert Marcuse",
        "slug": "herbert-marcuse",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/herbert-marcuse"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "One-Dimensional Man",
        "slug": "one-dimensional-man",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/herbert-marcuse/one-dimensional-man"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 144,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "economy",
          "slug": "economy",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/economy"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Herbert_Marcuse#One-Dimensional_Man_(1964)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:39"
    },
    {
      "id": "c062d0ac-c47f-429c-8e54-e884ac7a35a6",
      "slug": "when-the-whole",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/herbert-marcuse/one-dimensional-man/when-the-whole",
      "text": "When the whole is at stake, there is no crime except that of rejecting the whole, or not defending it. … Those who identify themselves with the whole, who are installed as the leaders and defenders of the whole can make mistakes, but they cannot do wrong—they are not guilty. They may become guilty again when this identification no longer holds, when they are gone.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Herbert Marcuse",
        "slug": "herbert-marcuse",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/herbert-marcuse"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "One-Dimensional Man",
        "slug": "one-dimensional-man",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/herbert-marcuse/one-dimensional-man"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 82,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "guilt",
          "slug": "guilt",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/guilt"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Herbert_Marcuse#One-Dimensional_Man_(1964)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:39"
    },
    {
      "id": "a129fd93-5c3a-4f55-bf9e-c4813693227a",
      "slug": "the-capabilities-intellectual",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/herbert-marcuse/one-dimensional-man/the-capabilities-intellectual",
      "text": "The capabilities (intellectual and material) of contemporary society are immeasurably greater than ever before—which means that the scope of society's domination over the individual is immeasurably greater than ever before. Our society distinguishes itself by conquering the centrifugal social forces with Technology rather than Terror, on the dual basis of an overwhelming efficiency and an increasing standard of living.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Herbert Marcuse",
        "slug": "herbert-marcuse",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/herbert-marcuse"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "One-Dimensional Man",
        "slug": "one-dimensional-man",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/herbert-marcuse/one-dimensional-man"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "technology",
          "slug": "technology",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/technology"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Herbert_Marcuse#One-Dimensional_Man_(1964)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:38"
    },
    {
      "id": "70d5ad0a-7981-4a43-91bb-2c45e516d7d0",
      "slug": "under-the-rule",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/herbert-marcuse/one-dimensional-man/under-the-rule",
      "text": "Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination. The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen and what is chosen by the individual.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Herbert Marcuse",
        "slug": "herbert-marcuse",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/herbert-marcuse"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "One-Dimensional Man",
        "slug": "one-dimensional-man",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/herbert-marcuse/one-dimensional-man"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 7,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "freedom",
          "slug": "freedom",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Herbert_Marcuse#One-Dimensional_Man_(1964)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:38"
    },
    {
      "id": "345616cb-91c2-46c3-a3ef-51c5297a8924",
      "slug": "in-which-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/herbert-marcuse/one-dimensional-man/in-which-the",
      "text": "In which the technical apparatus of production and distribution (with an increasing sector of automation) functions, not as the sum-total of mere instruments which can be isolated from their social and political effects, but rather as a system which determines a priori the product of the apparatus as well as the operations of servicing and extending it. In this society, the productive apparatus tends to become totalitarian to the extent to which it determines not only the socially needed occupations, skills, and attitudes, but also individual needs and aspirations. It thus obliterates the Opposition between the private and public existence, between individual and social needs.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Herbert Marcuse",
        "slug": "herbert-marcuse",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/herbert-marcuse"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "One-Dimensional Man",
        "slug": "one-dimensional-man",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/herbert-marcuse/one-dimensional-man"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "technology",
          "slug": "technology",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/technology"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Herbert_Marcuse#One-Dimensional_Man_(1964)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:38"
    },
    {
      "id": "32ae70c6-dffd-443a-98b0-e96d31cb91fa",
      "slug": "this-mutual-dependencies",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/herbert-marcuse/one-dimensional-man/this-mutual-dependencies",
      "text": "This mutual dependencies no longer the dialectical relationship between master and servant, which has been broken in the struggle for mutual recognition, but rather a vicious circle which encloses both the master and the servant. Do the technicians rule, or is their rule that of the others, who rely on the technicians as their planners and executors?",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Herbert Marcuse",
        "slug": "herbert-marcuse",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/herbert-marcuse"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "One-Dimensional Man",
        "slug": "one-dimensional-man",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/herbert-marcuse/one-dimensional-man"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 33,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "technology",
          "slug": "technology",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/technology"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Herbert_Marcuse#One-Dimensional_Man_(1964)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:38"
    },
    {
      "id": "022f7bd4-c2e9-4379-a499-6a197a6648d4",
      "slug": "domination-has-its",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/herbert-marcuse/one-dimensional-man/domination-has-its",
      "text": "Domination has its own aesthetics, and democratic domination has its democratic aesthetics.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Herbert Marcuse",
        "slug": "herbert-marcuse",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/herbert-marcuse"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "One-Dimensional Man",
        "slug": "one-dimensional-man",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/herbert-marcuse/one-dimensional-man"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 65,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "democracy",
          "slug": "democracy",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/democracy"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Herbert_Marcuse#One-Dimensional_Man_(1964)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:38"
    },
    {
      "id": "4ecb5cf0-dfdb-4e20-b1c0-e601b0a6eeb5",
      "slug": "but-why-are",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-pynchon/gravitys-rainbow/but-why-are",
      "text": "But why are we taught to feel reflexive shame whenever the subject comes up? Why will the Structure allow every other kind of sexual behavior but that one? Because submission and dominance are resources it needs for its very survival. They cannot be wasted in private sex. In any kind of sex. It needs our submission so that it may remain in power. It needs our lusts after dominance so that it can co-opt us into its own power game. There is no joy in it, only power. I tell you, if S and M could be established universally, at the family level, the State would wither away.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Thomas Pynchon",
        "slug": "thomas-pynchon",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-pynchon"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Gravity's Rainbow",
        "slug": "gravitys-rainbow",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-pynchon/gravitys-rainbow"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "sex",
          "slug": "sex",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sex"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gravity's_Rainbow#Quotes",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:19"
    },
    {
      "id": "df3fff36-b1b9-4b1d-99c3-32d8a8d21105",
      "slug": "the-white-protestants",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/norman-mailer/advertisements-for-myself/the-white-protestants",
      "text": "The White Protestant's ultimate sympathy must be with science, factology, and committee rather than with sex, birth, heat, flesh, creation, the sweet and the funky; they must vote, manipulate, control, and direct, these Protestants who are the center of power in our land, they must go for what they believe is reason when it is only the Square logic of the past.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Norman Mailer",
        "slug": "norman-mailer",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/norman-mailer"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Advertisements for Myself",
        "slug": "advertisements-for-myself",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/norman-mailer/advertisements-for-myself"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "America",
          "slug": "america",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/america"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Norman_Mailer#Advertisements_for_Myself_(1959)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:13"
    },
    {
      "id": "d4c68ce9-b4ff-42c1-a409-f0b85b5f7013",
      "slug": "the-man-who",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand/the-fountainhead/the-man-who",
      "text": "\"The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.\"",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Ayn Rand",
        "slug": "ayn-rand",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Fountainhead",
        "slug": "the-fountainhead",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand/the-fountainhead"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 692,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "sacrifice",
          "slug": "sacrifice",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sacrifice"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Fountainhead#Part_IV_(_Howard_Roark_)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:09"
    },
    {
      "id": "18742556-1b1f-4f8c-9fb1-e05d6a98b413",
      "slug": "in-the-long",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/zbigniew-brzezinski/the-grand-chessboard/in-the-long",
      "text": "In the long run, global politics are bound to become increasingly uncongenial to the concentration of hegemonic power in the hands of a single state. Hence America is not only the first, as well as the only, truly global superpower, but is also likely to be the very last.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Zbigniew Brzezinski",
        "slug": "zbigniew-brzezinski",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/zbigniew-brzezinski"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Grand Chessboard",
        "slug": "the-grand-chessboard",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/zbigniew-brzezinski/the-grand-chessboard"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 209,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "America",
          "slug": "america",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/america"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Zbigniew_Brzezinski#The_Grand_Chessboard_(1997)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:08"
    },
    {
      "id": "c14ca0e6-b619-4d84-8baa-8a7ef4767e19",
      "slug": "it-is-also",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/zbigniew-brzezinski/the-grand-chessboard/it-is-also",
      "text": "It is also a fact that America is too democratic at home to be autocratic abroad. This limits the use of America's power, especially its capacity for military intimidation. Never before has a populist democracy attained international supremacy. But the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion, except in conditions of a sudden threat or challenge to the public's sense of domestic well-being. The economic self-denial (that is, defense spending) and the human sacrifice (casualties, even among professional soldiers) required in the effort are uncongenial to democratic instincts. Democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Zbigniew Brzezinski",
        "slug": "zbigniew-brzezinski",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/zbigniew-brzezinski"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Grand Chessboard",
        "slug": "the-grand-chessboard",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/zbigniew-brzezinski/the-grand-chessboard"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 35,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "democracy",
          "slug": "democracy",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/democracy"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Zbigniew_Brzezinski#The_Grand_Chessboard_(1997)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:07"
    },
    {
      "id": "ab319667-68b9-4431-a625-fb537625a54a",
      "slug": "he-who-wants",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/paracelsus/paracelsus/he-who-wants",
      "text": "He who wants to govern must have insight into the hearts of men and act accordingly.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Paracelsus",
        "slug": "paracelsus",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/paracelsus"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Paracelsus",
        "slug": "paracelsus",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/paracelsus/paracelsus"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paracelsus#Paracelsus_-_Doctor_of_our_Time_(1992)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:07"
    },
    {
      "id": "01feb9d3-0f7f-451c-add6-8722b60ef97a",
      "slug": "the-scope-of-americas",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/zbigniew-brzezinski/the-grand-chessboard/the-scope-of-americas",
      "text": "The scope of America's global hegemony is admittedly great, but its depth is shallow, limited by both domestic and external restraints.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Zbigniew Brzezinski",
        "slug": "zbigniew-brzezinski",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/zbigniew-brzezinski"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Grand Chessboard",
        "slug": "the-grand-chessboard",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/zbigniew-brzezinski/the-grand-chessboard"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 35,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "America",
          "slug": "america",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/america"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Zbigniew_Brzezinski#The_Grand_Chessboard_(1997)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:07"
    },
    {
      "id": "d4e16498-5d6d-4d95-b350-02b90e5116cc",
      "slug": "it-may-be-in-our",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/four-ways-to-forgiveness/it-may-be-in-our",
      "text": "It may be in our sexuality that we are most easily enslaved, both men and women. It may be there, even as free men and women, that we find freedom hardest to keep. The politics of the flesh are the roots of power.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Ursula K. Le Guin",
        "slug": "ursula-k-le-guin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Four Ways to Forgiveness",
        "slug": "four-ways-to-forgiveness",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/four-ways-to-forgiveness"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 158,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "sex",
          "slug": "sex",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sex"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin#Four_Ways_to_Forgiveness_(1995)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:00"
    },
    {
      "id": "8d996415-3049-4698-91b2-ebf5878f2409",
      "slug": "the-quality-of-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/the-lathe-of-heaven/the-quality-of-the",
      "text": "The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Ursula K. Le Guin",
        "slug": "ursula-k-le-guin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Lathe Of Heaven",
        "slug": "the-lathe-of-heaven",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/the-lathe-of-heaven"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin#The_Lathe_of_Heaven_(1971)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:46:59"
    },
    {
      "id": "d716b0df-8cb5-443c-8986-1b867ca4184e",
      "slug": "theres-no-way",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/tales-from-earthsea/theres-no-way",
      "text": "There’s no way to use power for good.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Ursula K. Le Guin",
        "slug": "ursula-k-le-guin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Tales from Earthsea",
        "slug": "tales-from-earthsea",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/tales-from-earthsea"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 42,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin#Tales_from_Earthsea_(2001)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:46:58"
    },
    {
      "id": "7681b2fb-0a4b-419f-94d7-521a5f5fe138",
      "slug": "highdrake-said-that",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/tales-from-earthsea/highdrake-said-that",
      "text": "Highdrake said that to make love is to unmake power.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Ursula K. Le Guin",
        "slug": "ursula-k-le-guin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Tales from Earthsea",
        "slug": "tales-from-earthsea",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/tales-from-earthsea"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 59,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "love",
          "slug": "love",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love"
        },
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin#Tales_from_Earthsea_(2001)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:46:58"
    },
    {
      "id": "4004548b-0915-47ba-85a4-1408884d3c06",
      "slug": "ignorant-power-is-a-bane",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/tales-from-earthsea/ignorant-power-is-a-bane",
      "text": "Ignorant power is a bane!",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Ursula K. Le Guin",
        "slug": "ursula-k-le-guin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Tales from Earthsea",
        "slug": "tales-from-earthsea",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/tales-from-earthsea"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 66,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "ignorance",
          "slug": "ignorance",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/ignorance"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin#Tales_from_Earthsea_(2001)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:46:58"
    },
    {
      "id": "2b305ee6-f5d5-41f8-9381-eb9af8094094",
      "slug": "maybe-thats-what",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/tales-from-earthsea/maybe-thats-what",
      "text": "Maybe that’s what the Masters are afraid of. Maybe celibacy isn’t as necessary as the Rule of Roke teaches. Maybe it’s not a way of keeping the power pure, but of keeping the power to themselves.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Ursula K. Le Guin",
        "slug": "ursula-k-le-guin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Tales from Earthsea",
        "slug": "tales-from-earthsea",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/tales-from-earthsea"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 200,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin#Tales_from_Earthsea_(2001)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:46:58"
    },
    {
      "id": "10eb87c7-e69f-4b80-985a-357d33e31d95",
      "slug": "the-desire-for",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/tales-from-earthsea/the-desire-for",
      "text": "The desire for power feeds off itself, growing as it devours.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Ursula K. Le Guin",
        "slug": "ursula-k-le-guin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Tales from Earthsea",
        "slug": "tales-from-earthsea",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/tales-from-earthsea"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 80,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin#Tales_from_Earthsea_(2001)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:46:58"
    },
    {
      "id": "f97284ca-ead4-4fdf-943e-6400d73d50a7",
      "slug": "is-power-that-an",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/tehanu/is-power-that-an",
      "text": "Is power that—an emptiness?",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Ursula K. Le Guin",
        "slug": "ursula-k-le-guin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Tehanu",
        "slug": "tehanu",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/tehanu"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "emptiness",
          "slug": "emptiness",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emptiness"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin#Tehanu_(1990)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:46:57"
    },
    {
      "id": "bd7054c1-7488-45ae-a751-9399868841be",
      "slug": "to-claim-power",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/the-farthest-shore/to-claim-power",
      "text": "To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Ursula K. Le Guin",
        "slug": "ursula-k-le-guin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Farthest Shore",
        "slug": "the-farthest-shore",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/the-farthest-shore"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "wisdom",
          "slug": "wisdom",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/wisdom"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin#The_Farthest_Shore_(1972)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:46:56"
    },
    {
      "id": "5703aabd-42a8-42a2-9d6a-7b7ba10a445b",
      "slug": "but-we-insofar",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/the-farthest-shore/but-we-insofar",
      "text": "But we, insofar as we have power over the world and over one another, we must learn to do what the leaf and the whale and the wind do of their own nature. We must learn to keep the balance. Having intelligence, we must not act in ignorance. Having choice, we must not act without responsibility. Who am I—though I have the power to do it—to punish and reward, playing with men’s destinies?”",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Ursula K. Le Guin",
        "slug": "ursula-k-le-guin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Farthest Shore",
        "slug": "the-farthest-shore",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/the-farthest-shore"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "responsibility",
          "slug": "responsibility",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/responsibility"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin#The_Farthest_Shore_(1972)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:46:56"
    },
    {
      "id": "187361e6-596e-4903-bc51-9e52b16a4f7f",
      "slug": "one-man-may",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/the-farthest-shore/one-man-may",
      "text": "One man may as easily destroy, as govern: be King or Anti-King.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Ursula K. Le Guin",
        "slug": "ursula-k-le-guin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Farthest Shore",
        "slug": "the-farthest-shore",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/the-farthest-shore"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin#The_Farthest_Shore_(1972)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:46:56"
    },
    {
      "id": "da8346d7-7b51-42f8-9f26-0209b49fb8b5",
      "slug": "you-must-not",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/a-wizard-of-earthsea/you-must-not",
      "text": "You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, in Equilibrium. A wizard's power of Changing and Summoning can shake the balance of the world. It is dangerous, that power. It is most perilous. It must follow knowledge, and serve need. To light a candle is to cast a shadow.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Ursula K. Le Guin",
        "slug": "ursula-k-le-guin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Wizard of Earthsea",
        "slug": "a-wizard-of-earthsea",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/a-wizard-of-earthsea"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "responsibility",
          "slug": "responsibility",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/responsibility"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin#A_Wizard_of_Earthsea_(1968)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:46:55"
    },
    {
      "id": "8c6858c1-1cbb-480f-81d2-b38b9225bb2f",
      "slug": "i-was-in-too",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/a-wizard-of-earthsea/i-was-in-too",
      "text": "I was in too much haste, and now have no time left. I traded all the sunlight and the cities and the distant lands for a handful of power, for a shadow, for the dark.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Ursula K. Le Guin",
        "slug": "ursula-k-le-guin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Wizard of Earthsea",
        "slug": "a-wizard-of-earthsea",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/a-wizard-of-earthsea"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin#A_Wizard_of_Earthsea_(1968)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:46:55"
    },
    {
      "id": "52475700-3418-4eaf-acca-8a5a4840df99",
      "slug": "have-you-never",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/a-wizard-of-earthsea/have-you-never",
      "text": "Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light?",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Ursula K. Le Guin",
        "slug": "ursula-k-le-guin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Wizard of Earthsea",
        "slug": "a-wizard-of-earthsea",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/a-wizard-of-earthsea"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin#A_Wizard_of_Earthsea_(1968)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:46:55"
    },
    {
      "id": "026ed20f-1745-4c12-abb0-a08473818c87",
      "slug": "you-thought-as-a-boy",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/a-wizard-of-earthsea/you-thought-as-a-boy",
      "text": "You thought, as a boy, that a mage is one who can do anything. So I thought, once. So did we all. And the truth is that as a man’s real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing, but does only and wholly what he must do...",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Ursula K. Le Guin",
        "slug": "ursula-k-le-guin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Wizard of Earthsea",
        "slug": "a-wizard-of-earthsea",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/a-wizard-of-earthsea"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "knowledge",
          "slug": "knowledge",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/knowledge"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin#A_Wizard_of_Earthsea_(1968)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:46:55"
    },
    {
      "id": "8506386d-d087-4756-a447-86a73189d8b1",
      "slug": "the-juniper-scented-liquor",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/city-of-illusions/the-juniper-scented-liquor",
      "text": "The juniper-scented liquor had volatilized his thoughts; he should be thinking that madness caused this man to call himself a king, but was thinking rather that kingship had driven this man mad.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Ursula K. Le Guin",
        "slug": "ursula-k-le-guin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "City Of Illusions",
        "slug": "city-of-illusions",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/city-of-illusions"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "madness",
          "slug": "madness",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/madness"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin#City_of_Illusions_(1967)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:46:52"
    },
    {
      "id": "07cf5b91-0683-4fc3-90af-ad114d50130d",
      "slug": "they-prevented-men",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/city-of-illusions/they-prevented-men",
      "text": "They prevented men from doing anything. But they did nothing themselves. They did not rule, they only blighted.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Ursula K. Le Guin",
        "slug": "ursula-k-le-guin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "City Of Illusions",
        "slug": "city-of-illusions",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ursula-k-le-guin/city-of-illusions"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin#City_of_Illusions_(1967)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:46:52"
    },
    {
      "id": "af469765-4400-415e-b814-961540fe27bd",
      "slug": "the-goals-of-feminism",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/shulamith-firestone/the-dialectic-of-sex-the-case-for-feminist-revolution/the-goals-of-feminism",
      "text": "The goals of feminism can never be achieved through evolution, but only through revolution. Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, will not be given up without a struggle.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Shulamith Firestone",
        "slug": "shulamith-firestone",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/shulamith-firestone"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution",
        "slug": "the-dialectic-of-sex-the-case-for-feminist-revolution",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/shulamith-firestone/the-dialectic-of-sex-the-case-for-feminist-revolution"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 31,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "revolution",
          "slug": "revolution",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Shulamith_Firestone#Chapter_Two",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:46:38"
    },
    {
      "id": "ca093588-5fea-466b-b023-d285dc0aa2c1",
      "slug": "the-empress-expects",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-erikson/gardens-of-the-moon/the-empress-expects",
      "text": "“The Empress expects obedience of her servants, and demands loyalty.”\n\n“Any reasonable ruler would have the expectation and the demand the other way round.”",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Steven Erikson",
        "slug": "steven-erikson",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-erikson"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Gardens Of The Moon",
        "slug": "gardens-of-the-moon",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-erikson/gardens-of-the-moon"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 90,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "loyalty",
          "slug": "loyalty",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/loyalty"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Steven_Erikson#Gardens_of_the_Moon_(1999)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:46:30"
    },
    {
      "id": "b90bbf1f-ba74-462c-ad5e-ff2e45e1773d",
      "slug": "the-power-he-commanded",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-erikson/gardens-of-the-moon/the-power-he-commanded",
      "text": "The power he commanded insisted upon subjects. Strength was ever relative, and he could not dominate without the company of the dominated.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Steven Erikson",
        "slug": "steven-erikson",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-erikson"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Gardens Of The Moon",
        "slug": "gardens-of-the-moon",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-erikson/gardens-of-the-moon"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 555,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Steven_Erikson#Gardens_of_the_Moon_(1999)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:46:30"
    },
    {
      "id": "5781d3ad-a972-481b-9f9a-31e08555f49a",
      "slug": "he-who-would",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-erikson/gardens-of-the-moon/he-who-would",
      "text": "He who would dominate must learn early that those resisting his command should be destroyed.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Steven Erikson",
        "slug": "steven-erikson",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-erikson"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Gardens Of The Moon",
        "slug": "gardens-of-the-moon",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-erikson/gardens-of-the-moon"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 554,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Steven_Erikson#Gardens_of_the_Moon_(1999)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:46:30"
    },
    {
      "id": "6d476f27-5fc5-4eae-b819-e8e77ae969e4",
      "slug": "the-major-problem-one",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-adams/the-restaurant-at-the-end-of-the-universe/the-major-problem-one",
      "text": "The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.\n\nTo summarise: it is a well known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarise the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarise the summary of the summary: people are a problem.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Douglas Adams",
        "slug": "douglas-adams",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-adams"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe",
        "slug": "the-restaurant-at-the-end-of-the-universe",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-adams/the-restaurant-at-the-end-of-the-universe"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "humor",
          "slug": "humor",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor"
        },
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy#Chapter_28",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:46:26"
    },
    {
      "id": "c293a862-da7f-4e28-808b-b57cce60ed86",
      "slug": "the-president-is-always",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-adams/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-primary-phase/the-president-is-always",
      "text": "The President is always a controversial choice, always an infuriating but fascinating character. His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Douglas Adams",
        "slug": "douglas-adams",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-adams"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Primary Phase",
        "slug": "the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-primary-phase",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-adams/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-primary-phase"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "humor",
          "slug": "humor",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor"
        },
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy#Chapter_4",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:46:25"
    },
    {
      "id": "bfad8f33-5c9d-4be8-82c3-b3bebb4678ec",
      "slug": "the-rule-acknowledged",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/wendell-berry/the-long-legged-house/the-rule-acknowledged",
      "text": "The rule, acknowledged or not, seems to be that if we have great power we must use it. We would use a steam shovel to pick up a dime. We have experts who can prove there is no other way to do it.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Wendell Berry",
        "slug": "wendell-berry",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/wendell-berry"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Long-Legged House",
        "slug": "the-long-legged-house",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/wendell-berry/the-long-legged-house"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "technology",
          "slug": "technology",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/technology"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wendell_Berry#The_Long-Legged_House_(1969)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:46:20"
    },
    {
      "id": "6fb8d219-0339-46e2-8540-340ab631e7cd",
      "slug": "the-vietnam-war",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/survivor/the-vietnam-war",
      "text": "\"The Vietnam War didn't cause the mess of the 1960's\" Adam says. \"Drugs didn't cause ot. Well only one drug did. It was the birth control pill. For the first time in history, everybody could have all the sex they wanted. Everybody could have that kind of power.\"",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Chuck Palahniuk",
        "slug": "chuck-palahniuk",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Survivor",
        "slug": "survivor",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/survivor"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "sex",
          "slug": "sex",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sex"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Survivor_(Palahniuk_novel)#Quotes",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:46:19"
    },
    {
      "id": "384fa546-a2b6-423f-ba60-7d7911ee0b69",
      "slug": "throughout-history-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/survivor/throughout-history-the",
      "text": "\"Throughout history the most powerful rulers have been sex maniacs. And he asks, does their sex appetite come from having power, or does their will for power come from their sex appetite? \"And if you don't crave sex,\" he says, \"will you crave power?\" No, he says. \"And instead of electing decent, boring, sexually repressed officials,\" he says \"maybe we should find the horniest candidates and maybe they can get some good work done.\"",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Chuck Palahniuk",
        "slug": "chuck-palahniuk",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Survivor",
        "slug": "survivor",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/survivor"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "sex",
          "slug": "sex",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sex"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Survivor_(Palahniuk_novel)#Quotes",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:46:19"
    },
    {
      "id": "200de23f-49d8-4027-8f6a-5dd326a074f8",
      "slug": "the-exercise-of-power",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/vaclav-havel/disturbing-the-peace/the-exercise-of-power",
      "text": "The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Václav Havel",
        "slug": "vaclav-havel",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/vaclav-havel"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Disturbing the Peace",
        "slug": "disturbing-the-peace",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/vaclav-havel/disturbing-the-peace"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/V%C3%A1clav_Havel#Disturbing_the_Peace_(1986)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:56"
    },
    {
      "id": "50aa67bd-70a6-4789-9a59-237350c0cbf9",
      "slug": "power-lust-is-a-weed",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand/atlas-shrugged/power-lust-is-a-weed",
      "text": "\"Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.\"",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Ayn Rand",
        "slug": "ayn-rand",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Atlas Shrugged",
        "slug": "atlas-shrugged",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand/atlas-shrugged"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 1045,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged#Chapter_Seven:_%22This_is_John_Galt_Speaking%22",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:52"
    },
    {
      "id": "8a7497c1-3c3d-40ce-940b-00fcafdce98b",
      "slug": "slave-i-before",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-shelley/frankenstein/slave-i-before",
      "text": "Slave, I before reasoned with you, but you have proved yourself unworthy of my condescension. Remember that I have power; you believe yourself miserable, but I can make you so wretched that the light of day will be hateful to you. You are my creator, but I am your master; obey!",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Mary Shelley",
        "slug": "mary-shelley",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-shelley"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Frankenstein",
        "slug": "frankenstein",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-shelley/frankenstein"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Frankenstein_(novel)#Quotes",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:46"
    },
    {
      "id": "19c3385e-4628-41f9-953f-8e1cb4ebdcea",
      "slug": "power-tends-to-confuse",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-william-fulbright/the-arrogance-of-power/power-tends-to-confuse",
      "text": "Power tends to confuse itself with virtue and a great nation is particularly susceptible to the idea that its power is a sign of God's favor, conferring upon it a special responsibility for other nations — to make them richer and happier and wiser, to remake them, that is, in its own shining image. Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence. Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "J. William Fulbright",
        "slug": "j-william-fulbright",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-william-fulbright"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Arrogance of Power",
        "slug": "the-arrogance-of-power",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-william-fulbright/the-arrogance-of-power"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 4,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "pride",
          "slug": "pride",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/pride"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/J._William_Fulbright#The_Arrogance_of_Power_(1966)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:44"
    },
    {
      "id": "c0a0e6f5-0fde-4891-b8fa-41a1f60a5438",
      "slug": "im-not-a-tyrant",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/pd-james/the-children-of-men/im-not-a-tyrant",
      "text": "I'm not a tyrant, but I can't afford to be merciful. Whatever it is necessary to do, I will do it.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "P.D. James",
        "slug": "pd-james",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/pd-james"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Children of Men",
        "slug": "the-children-of-men",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/pd-james/the-children-of-men"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "tyranny",
          "slug": "tyranny",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/tyranny"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/P._D._James#The_Children_of_Men_(1992)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:42"
    },
    {
      "id": "d04a9d5a-8026-42d7-bdeb-3f85a813e07d",
      "slug": "soldierly-simplicity-of-character",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-von-clausewitz/on-war/soldierly-simplicity-of-character",
      "text": "...soldierly simplicity of character that has always represented the military at its best. In the higher ranks it is different. The higher a man is placed, the broader his point of view. Different interests and a wide variety of passions, good and bad, will arise on all sides. Envy and generosity, pride and humility, wrath and compassion - all may appear as effective forces in this great drama.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Carl von Clausewitz",
        "slug": "carl-von-clausewitz",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-von-clausewitz"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "On War",
        "slug": "on-war",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-von-clausewitz/on-war"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "character",
          "slug": "character",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/character"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Carl_von_Clausewitz#Book_2",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:37"
    },
    {
      "id": "6468b625-d52a-4ff8-a747-56e3012eea39",
      "slug": "but-now-well",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/gertrude-stein/paris-france/but-now-well",
      "text": "But now well democracy has shown us that what is evil are the grosses têtes, the big heads, all big heads are greedy for money and power, they are ambitious that is the reason they are big heads and so they are at the head of the government and the result is misery for the people. They talk about cutting off the heads of the grosses têtes but now we know that there will be other grosses têtes and the will be all the same.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Gertrude Stein",
        "slug": "gertrude-stein",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/gertrude-stein"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Paris France",
        "slug": "paris-france",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/gertrude-stein/paris-france"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 28,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "greed",
          "slug": "greed",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/greed"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gertrude_Stein#Paris_France_(1940)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:34"
    },
    {
      "id": "8de7148e-cbff-4a75-bf05-7a3875eccf83",
      "slug": "catch-22-says-they",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-heller/catch-22/catch-22-says-they",
      "text": "Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Joseph Heller",
        "slug": "joseph-heller",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-heller"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Catch-22",
        "slug": "catch-22",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-heller/catch-22"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Heller#Catch-22_(1961)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:11"
    },
    {
      "id": "6bbcfcfa-6101-4608-a620-936252335bea",
      "slug": "power-does-not",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck/the-short-reign-of-pippin-iv/power-does-not",
      "text": "Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps fear of a loss of power.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "John Steinbeck",
        "slug": "john-steinbeck",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Short Reign of Pippin IV",
        "slug": "the-short-reign-of-pippin-iv",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-steinbeck/the-short-reign-of-pippin-iv"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "fear",
          "slug": "fear",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear"
        },
        {
          "name": "corruption",
          "slug": "corruption",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/corruption"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Steinbeck#The_Short_Reign_of_Pippin_IV_(1957)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:01"
    },
    {
      "id": "9d358f3f-bab8-4ebd-8922-7490eb7de3eb",
      "slug": "for-hand-in-glove",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/zane-grey/riders-of-the-purple-sage/for-hand-in-glove",
      "text": "For hand in glove with that power was an insatiate greed; they were one and the same.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Zane Grey",
        "slug": "zane-grey",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/zane-grey"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Riders of the Purple Sage",
        "slug": "riders-of-the-purple-sage",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/zane-grey/riders-of-the-purple-sage"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "greed",
          "slug": "greed",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/greed"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Zane_Grey#Riders_of_the_Purple_Sage_(1912)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:44:55"
    },
    {
      "id": "96d27cec-1787-4174-a807-9e21a882df60",
      "slug": "your-body-is-just",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/abbie-hoffman/steal-this-book/your-body-is-just",
      "text": "Your body is just one in a mass of cuddly humanity. Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them. The duty of a revolutionary is to make love and that means staying alive and free. That doesn't allow for cop-outs. Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Abbie Hoffman",
        "slug": "abbie-hoffman",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/abbie-hoffman"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Steal This Book",
        "slug": "steal-this-book",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/abbie-hoffman/steal-this-book"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "revolution",
          "slug": "revolution",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Abbie_Hoffman#Steal_This_Book_(1971)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:44:54"
    },
    {
      "id": "592caeed-58d9-4b9c-a06d-1693066f1c44",
      "slug": "from-the-perspective",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/derrick-jensen/the-culture-of-make-believe/from-the-perspective",
      "text": "From the perspective of those who are entitled, the problems begin when those they despise do not go along with--and have the power and wherewithal to not go along with--the perceived entitlement.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Derrick Jensen",
        "slug": "derrick-jensen",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/derrick-jensen"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Culture of Make Believe",
        "slug": "the-culture-of-make-believe",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/derrick-jensen/the-culture-of-make-believe"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 106,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "contempt",
          "slug": "contempt",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/contempt"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Derrick_Jensen#The_Culture_of_Make_Believe_(2003)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:44:51"
    },
    {
      "id": "842be89e-4e75-4bac-8f85-4af2ae1cb6c7",
      "slug": "its-a-sorry",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson/blue-mars/its-a-sorry",
      "text": "It’s a sorry excuse for a government anyway. It always gets back to the same old thing, power suckers sucking power.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Kim Stanley Robinson",
        "slug": "kim-stanley-robinson",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Blue Mars",
        "slug": "blue-mars",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson/blue-mars"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 750,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "the state",
          "slug": "the-state",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-state"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kim_Stanley_Robinson#Blue_Mars_(1996)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:44:46"
    },
    {
      "id": "a841960e-956f-46d0-9591-05aa71e88ddd",
      "slug": "power-is-like",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson/blue-mars/power-is-like",
      "text": "Power is like matter, it has gravity, it clumps and then starts to draw more into itself.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Kim Stanley Robinson",
        "slug": "kim-stanley-robinson",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Blue Mars",
        "slug": "blue-mars",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson/blue-mars"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 166,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kim_Stanley_Robinson#Blue_Mars_(1996)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:44:45"
    },
    {
      "id": "552a26b4-3ce7-4e16-9146-c65f85c6c682",
      "slug": "you-must-be-very",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson/blue-mars/you-must-be-very",
      "text": "You must be very scrupulous not to gather power in to the center just because you can do it. Power corrupts, that’s the basic law of politics. Maybe the only law.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Kim Stanley Robinson",
        "slug": "kim-stanley-robinson",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Blue Mars",
        "slug": "blue-mars",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson/blue-mars"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 156,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "corruption",
          "slug": "corruption",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/corruption"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kim_Stanley_Robinson#Blue_Mars_(1996)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:44:45"
    },
    {
      "id": "3e83c6f7-5ce1-4ff8-a6a8-68d510ae178b",
      "slug": "dominance-hierarchies-had",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson/blue-mars/dominance-hierarchies-had",
      "text": "Dominance hierarchies had underlain every system ever realized so far, but at the same time democratic values had been always a hope and a goal, expressed in every primate’s sense of self, and resentment of hierarchies that after all had to be imposed, by force.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Kim Stanley Robinson",
        "slug": "kim-stanley-robinson",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Blue Mars",
        "slug": "blue-mars",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson/blue-mars"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 483,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "democracy",
          "slug": "democracy",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/democracy"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kim_Stanley_Robinson#Blue_Mars_(1996)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:44:45"
    },
    {
      "id": "31cc4e89-6bab-4c58-b525-47f2d0aebf24",
      "slug": "it-was-not",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson/green-mars/it-was-not",
      "text": "It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Kim Stanley Robinson",
        "slug": "kim-stanley-robinson",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Green Mars",
        "slug": "green-mars",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson/green-mars"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 582,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "stupidity",
          "slug": "stupidity",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/stupidity"
        },
        {
          "name": "corruption",
          "slug": "corruption",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/corruption"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kim_Stanley_Robinson#Green_Mars_(1993)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:44:45"
    },
    {
      "id": "b675cd4a-d70c-45af-9ca6-ea19750531b9",
      "slug": "money-equals-power",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson/red-mars/money-equals-power",
      "text": "Money equals power; power makes the law; and law makes government.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Kim Stanley Robinson",
        "slug": "kim-stanley-robinson",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Red Mars",
        "slug": "red-mars",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson/red-mars"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 394,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "money",
          "slug": "money",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/money"
        },
        {
          "name": "law",
          "slug": "law",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/law"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kim_Stanley_Robinson#Red_Mars_(1992)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:44:44"
    },
    {
      "id": "89bd45ec-19ff-45af-9891-a3043c583aee",
      "slug": "of-course-he-had",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson/green-mars/of-course-he-had",
      "text": "Of course he had seen that human affairs were irrational and unexplainable. This no one could miss. But he realized now that he had been making the assumption that the people who involved themselves in governance were making a good-faith effort to run things in a rational manner, with a view to the long-term well-being of humanity and its biophysical support system. Desmond laughed at him as he tried to express this, and irritably he exclaimed, “But why else take on such compromised work, if not to that end?”\n\n“Power,” Desmond said. “Power and gain.”\n\n“Ah.”\n\nSax had always been so uninterested in those things that it was hard for him to understand why anyone else would be. What was personal gain but the freedom to do what you wanted to do? And what was power but the freedom to do what you wanted to do? And once you had that freedom, any more wealth or power actually began to restrict one’s options, and reduce one’s freedom. One became a servant of one’s wealth or power, constrained to spend all one’s time protecting it.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Kim Stanley Robinson",
        "slug": "kim-stanley-robinson",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Green Mars",
        "slug": "green-mars",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson/green-mars"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 234,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "freedom",
          "slug": "freedom",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kim_Stanley_Robinson#Green_Mars_(1993)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:44:44"
    },
    {
      "id": "21593386-f8f6-4f12-ae2c-c74a319a786c",
      "slug": "for-of-course",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson/red-mars/for-of-course",
      "text": "For of course it was impossible that she was doing it all without cause. That was the nature of power; when you had it no one was ever again simply a friend, simply a lover. Inevitably they all wanted things you could give them—if nothing else, the prestige of friendship with the powerful.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Kim Stanley Robinson",
        "slug": "kim-stanley-robinson",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Red Mars",
        "slug": "red-mars",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson/red-mars"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 398,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "friendship",
          "slug": "friendship",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kim_Stanley_Robinson#Red_Mars_(1992)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:44:44"
    },
    {
      "id": "0c974128-3476-4cb0-a3c0-52779ed75471",
      "slug": "anyway-thats-a-large",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson/red-mars/anyway-thats-a-large",
      "text": "Anyway that’s a large part of what economics is—people arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning numerical values to non-numerical things. And then pretending that they haven’t just made the numbers up, which they have. Economics is like astrology in that sense, except that economics serves to justify the current power structure, and so it has a lot of fervent believers among the powerful.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Kim Stanley Robinson",
        "slug": "kim-stanley-robinson",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Red Mars",
        "slug": "red-mars",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson/red-mars"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 297,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "money",
          "slug": "money",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/money"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kim_Stanley_Robinson#Red_Mars_(1992)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:44:44"
    },
    {
      "id": "29e490ac-c3d2-49df-af8e-fbc94c0b05fc",
      "slug": "the-king-is-an-absolute",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-silverberg/letters-from-atlantis/the-king-is-an-absolute",
      "text": "The King is an absolute monarch, and I mean absolute. Whatever he says, goes. There’s no council of nobles, no senate, nothing that remotely challenges the King’s authority. He’s got courtiers and bureaucrats, sure, but the whole empire is essentially his own private property, to rule as he pleases.\n\nIt sounds like a recipe for disaster. Certainly such an arrangement always has been, in historical times. No empire can hope to have an unbroken string of capable rulers. This king or that one might be all right, and maybe as much as a century can go along without any troublemakers reaching the throne. But sooner or later some madman is bound to come along, a Nero or a Caligula or a Hitler, somebody who won’t be able to handle absolute power, who runs amok and causes terrible chaos.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Robert Silverberg",
        "slug": "robert-silverberg",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-silverberg"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Letters from Atlantis",
        "slug": "letters-from-atlantis",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-silverberg/letters-from-atlantis"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 51,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "tyranny",
          "slug": "tyranny",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/tyranny"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Silverberg#Letters_from_Atlantis_(1990)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:44:42"
    },
    {
      "id": "d0ba8695-7685-4914-b4aa-3a8a38e30a08",
      "slug": "but-in-this",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-silverberg/a-time-of-changes/but-in-this",
      "text": "But in this logging camp in the mountains I came to understand that kings are nothing but men set high. The gods do not anoint them, but rather the will of men, and men can strip them of their lofty rank.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Robert Silverberg",
        "slug": "robert-silverberg",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-silverberg"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Time of Changes",
        "slug": "a-time-of-changes",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-silverberg/a-time-of-changes"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 62,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Silverberg#A_Time_of_Changes_(1971)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:44:41"
    },
    {
      "id": "e0ac7749-6597-43a3-8a0c-49683153c1a4",
      "slug": "of-course-chalk",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-silverberg/thorns/of-course-chalk",
      "text": "Of course, Chalk had little need for further money. It had motivated him once, but not now. Nor did the acquisition of greater power please him much. Despite the customary theories, Chalk had attained sufficient power so that he was willing to stop expanding if only he could be sure of holding what he had. No, it was something else, something inner, that governed his decisions now. When the love of money and the love of power are both sated, the love of love remains.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Robert Silverberg",
        "slug": "robert-silverberg",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-silverberg"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Thorns",
        "slug": "thorns",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-silverberg/thorns"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 29,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "love",
          "slug": "love",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love"
        },
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "money",
          "slug": "money",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/money"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Silverberg#Thorns_(1967)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:44:38"
    },
    {
      "id": "c8ce7bf3-00df-4964-bba4-1826c728fb50",
      "slug": "take-this-as-a-bit",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-silverberg/the-gate-of-worlds/take-this-as-a-bit",
      "text": "Take this as a bit of easy wisdom: people who try to rule over other people are going to be hated.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Robert Silverberg",
        "slug": "robert-silverberg",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-silverberg"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Gate of Worlds",
        "slug": "the-gate-of-worlds",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-silverberg/the-gate-of-worlds"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 23,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "hatred",
          "slug": "hatred",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hatred"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Silverberg#The_Gate_of_Worlds_(1967)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:44:37"
    },
    {
      "id": "8868d5a5-9a95-4103-8cd5-25cba2b9b356",
      "slug": "to-be-president",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike/buchanan-dying/to-be-president",
      "text": "To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client; still, one must make the best of the case, for the purposes of Providence.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "John Hoyer Updike",
        "slug": "john-hoyer-updike",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Buchanan Dying",
        "slug": "buchanan-dying",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike/buchanan-dying"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Updike#Buchanan_Dying_:_A_Play_(1974)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:44:28"
    },
    {
      "id": "1ecf38b1-f578-42f8-93ba-5ba1e34c31fa",
      "slug": "please-said-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/t-h-white/the-sword-in-the-stone/please-said-the",
      "text": "\"Please,\" said the Wart, \"I don't know what I ought to ask.\"\n\n\"There is nothing,\" said the monarch, \"except the power which you pretend to seek: power to grind and power to digest…all power and pitilessness springing from the nape of the neck…Love is a trick played on us by the forces of evolution. Pleasure is the bait laid down by the same. There is only Power. Power is of the individual mind, but the mind's power is not enough. Power of the body decides everything in the end, and only Might is Right.\"",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "T. H. White",
        "slug": "t-h-white",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/t-h-white"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Sword in the Stone",
        "slug": "the-sword-in-the-stone",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/t-h-white/the-sword-in-the-stone"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Once_and_Future_King#The_Sword_in_the_Stone_(1938)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:44:10"
    },
    {
      "id": "771b50cf-80e2-4c28-aed7-4a82a689d2fe",
      "slug": "autocracy-is-based",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/time-enough-for-love/autocracy-is-based",
      "text": "Autocracy is based on the assumption that one man is wiser than a million men. Let's play that over again, too. Who decides?",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Robert A. Heinlein",
        "slug": "robert-a-heinlein",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Time Enough For Love",
        "slug": "time-enough-for-love",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/time-enough-for-love"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 246,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "democracy",
          "slug": "democracy",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/democracy"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Time_Enough_for_Love#Quotes",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:44:01"
    },
    {
      "id": "ab6a98ab-aa18-4f84-a226-3e1477bfb62b",
      "slug": "put-not-your",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/time-enough-for-love/put-not-your",
      "text": "‘Put not your faith in princes,’ Ira; since they don’t produce, they always steal.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Robert A. Heinlein",
        "slug": "robert-a-heinlein",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Time Enough For Love",
        "slug": "time-enough-for-love",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/time-enough-for-love"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 109,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "theft",
          "slug": "theft",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/theft"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Time_Enough_for_Love#Quotes",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:44:00"
    },
    {
      "id": "b520a257-e314-4a52-9974-230f5492bb83",
      "slug": "at-one-time",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/the-moon-is-a-harsh-mistress/at-one-time",
      "text": "At one time kings were anointed by Deity, so the problem was to see to it that Deity chose the right candidate. In this age the myth is \"the will of the people\" ... but the problem changes only superficially.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Robert A. Heinlein",
        "slug": "robert-a-heinlein",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress",
        "slug": "the-moon-is-a-harsh-mistress",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/the-moon-is-a-harsh-mistress"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "democracy",
          "slug": "democracy",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/democracy"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Moon_Is_a_Harsh_Mistress#Quotes",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:43:59"
    },
    {
      "id": "e1a665b5-76e4-4873-95e6-fe7316afa670",
      "slug": "that-we-were",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/the-moon-is-a-harsh-mistress/that-we-were",
      "text": "That we were slaves I had known all my life — and nothing could be done about it. True, we weren't bought and sold — but as long as Authority held monopoly over what we had to have and what we could sell to buy it, we were slaves.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Robert A. Heinlein",
        "slug": "robert-a-heinlein",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress",
        "slug": "the-moon-is-a-harsh-mistress",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/the-moon-is-a-harsh-mistress"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 31,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "slavery",
          "slug": "slavery",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/slavery"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Moon_Is_a_Harsh_Mistress#Quotes",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:43:58"
    },
    {
      "id": "34a7b848-efc1-4dc6-8c3d-3f67977292dc",
      "slug": "to-vote-is-to-wield",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/starship-troopers/to-vote-is-to-wield",
      "text": "To vote is to wield authority; it is the supreme authority from which all other authority derives—such as mine to make your lives miserable once a day. Force if you will!—the franchise is force, naked and raw, the Power of the Rods and the Ax. Whether it is exerted by ten men or by ten billion, political authority is force.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Robert A. Heinlein",
        "slug": "robert-a-heinlein",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Starship Troopers",
        "slug": "starship-troopers",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/starship-troopers"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "democracy",
          "slug": "democracy",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/democracy"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Starship_Troopers#Chapter_12",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:43:58"
    },
    {
      "id": "a29a154b-d27f-495f-8d5f-7b71eab95f48",
      "slug": "despite-a-flattering",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-kenneth-galbraith/the-great-crash-1929/despite-a-flattering",
      "text": "Despite a flattering supposition to the contrary, people come readily to terms with power. There is little reason to think that the power of the great bankers, while they were assumed to have it, was much resented. But as the ghosts of numerous tyrants, from Julius Caesar to Benito Mussolini will testify, people are very hard on those who, having had power, lose it or are destroyed. Then anger at past arrogance is joined with contempt for the present weakness. The victim or his corpse is made to suffer all available indignities.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "John Kenneth Galbraith",
        "slug": "john-kenneth-galbraith",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-kenneth-galbraith"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Great Crash 1929",
        "slug": "the-great-crash-1929",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-kenneth-galbraith/the-great-crash-1929"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 115,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Kenneth_Galbraith#The_Great_Crash,_1929_(1954_and_1997)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:43:54"
    },
    {
      "id": "e68e376c-580c-4802-a46b-9b391a9fdf84",
      "slug": "all-political-problems",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke/childhoods-end/all-political-problems",
      "text": "\"All political problems,\" Karellen had once told Stormgren, \"can be solved by the correct application of power\"",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Arthur C. Clarke",
        "slug": "arthur-c-clarke",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Childhood's End",
        "slug": "childhoods-end",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke/childhoods-end"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Childhood's_End#Quotes",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:43:52"
    },
    {
      "id": "6db081c2-94ac-4de2-b927-1a1998de19d9",
      "slug": "fifty-years-is-ample",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke/childhoods-end/fifty-years-is-ample",
      "text": "Fifty years is ample time to change the world and it's people almost beyond recognition. All that I'd required for the task are a sound knowledge of social engineering, a clear sight of the intended goal- and power",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Arthur C. Clarke",
        "slug": "arthur-c-clarke",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Childhood's End",
        "slug": "childhoods-end",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke/childhoods-end"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Childhood's_End#Quotes",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:43:52"
    },
    {
      "id": "5563c9f5-152a-4ec6-8b3d-0a7900e64b5f",
      "slug": "sons-and-daughters",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/napoleon-hill/think-and-grow-rich/sons-and-daughters",
      "text": "Sons and daughters of wealthy men, and others who inherit money which they did not earn... Power in the hands of one who did not acquire it gradually, is often fatal to success.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Napoleon Hill",
        "slug": "napoleon-hill",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/napoleon-hill"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Think And Grow Rich",
        "slug": "think-and-grow-rich",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/napoleon-hill/think-and-grow-rich"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "wealth",
          "slug": "wealth",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/wealth"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Napoleon_Hill#Think_and_Grow_Rich_(1938)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:43:18"
    },
    {
      "id": "a0440b48-ea6d-4ab0-b96d-498ed9b4f4e7",
      "slug": "the-only-difference",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/hunter-s-thompson/kingdom-of-fear/the-only-difference",
      "text": "The only difference between the Sane and the Insane, is IN and yet within this world, the Sane have the power to have the Insane locked up.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Hunter S. Thompson",
        "slug": "hunter-s-thompson",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/hunter-s-thompson"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Kingdom of Fear",
        "slug": "kingdom-of-fear",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/hunter-s-thompson/kingdom-of-fear"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "madness",
          "slug": "madness",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/madness"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hunter_S._Thompson#Kingdom_of_Fear:_Loathsome_Secrets_of_a_Star-crossed_Child_in_the_Final_Days_of_the_American_Century_(2004)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:43:10"
    },
    {
      "id": "5823cca9-723a-43f8-8e88-bb7d770dff1e",
      "slug": "all-political-power",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/hunter-s-thompson/kingdom-of-fear/all-political-power",
      "text": "All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Hunter S. Thompson",
        "slug": "hunter-s-thompson",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/hunter-s-thompson"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Kingdom of Fear",
        "slug": "kingdom-of-fear",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/hunter-s-thompson/kingdom-of-fear"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "humor",
          "slug": "humor",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor"
        },
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hunter_S._Thompson#Kingdom_of_Fear:_Loathsome_Secrets_of_a_Star-crossed_Child_in_the_Final_Days_of_the_American_Century_(2004)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:43:10"
    },
    {
      "id": "043cb304-0512-43da-b735-6942d72360b2",
      "slug": "as-always-there",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-book-of-dreams/as-always-there",
      "text": "“As always there is someone to hold a tight hand on the purse strings—usually the most affluent of the persons in authority.”\n\n“This is how they become affluent.”",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Jack Vance",
        "slug": "jack-vance",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Book of Dreams",
        "slug": "the-book-of-dreams",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-book-of-dreams"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 322,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "humor",
          "slug": "humor",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor"
        },
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "money",
          "slug": "money",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/money"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jack_Vance#The_Book_of_Dreams_(1981)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:59"
    },
    {
      "id": "0daf0dae-8d61-4b13-8dc2-7f217db4e657",
      "slug": "humanity-many-times",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-star-king/humanity-many-times",
      "text": "Humanity many times has had sad experience of superpowerful police forces...As soon as (the police) slip out from under the firm thumb of a suspicious local tribune, they become arbitrary, merciless, a law unto themselves. They think no more of justice, but only of establishing themselves as a privileged and envied elite. They mistake the attitude of natural caution and uncertainty of the civilian population as admiration and respect, and presently they start to swagger back and forth, jingling their weapons in megalomaniac euphoria. People thereupon become not masters, but servants. Such a police force becomes merely an aggregate of uniformed criminals, the more baneful in that their position is unchallenged and sanctioned by law. The police mentality cannot regard a human being in terms other than as an item or object to be processed as expeditiously as possible. Public convenience or dignity means nothing; police prerogatives assume the status of divine law. Submissiveness is demanded. If a police officer kills a civilian, it is a regrettable circumstance: the officer was possibly overzealous. If a civilian kills a police officer all hell breaks loose. The police foam at the mouth. All other business comes to a standstill until the perpetrator of this most dastardly act is found out. Inevitably, when apprehended, he is beaten or otherwise tortured for his intolerable presumption. The police complain that they cannot function efficiently, that criminals escape them. Better a hundred unchecked criminals than the despotism of one unbridled police force.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Jack Vance",
        "slug": "jack-vance",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Star King",
        "slug": "the-star-king",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-star-king"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 32,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "police",
          "slug": "police",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/police"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jack_Vance#The_Star_King_(1964)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:57"
    },
    {
      "id": "a45c16d4-d49b-4d32-811e-3b9219939057",
      "slug": "control-is-necessary",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/emphyrio/control-is-necessary",
      "text": "Control is necessary and even good—so long as I do the controlling.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Jack Vance",
        "slug": "jack-vance",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Emphyrio",
        "slug": "emphyrio",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/emphyrio"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "humor",
          "slug": "humor",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor"
        },
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jack_Vance#Emphyrio_(1969)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:55"
    },
    {
      "id": "68b2c499-6af5-4bb5-aeb2-b57900a238fa",
      "slug": "if-the-dictators",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/vandals-of-the-void/if-the-dictators",
      "text": "If the dictators and militarists who used to start wars had to earn by manual labor what their wars cost, there would have been very few wars.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Jack Vance",
        "slug": "jack-vance",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Vandals of the Void",
        "slug": "vandals-of-the-void",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/vandals-of-the-void"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 31,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "war",
          "slug": "war",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war"
        },
        {
          "name": "work",
          "slug": "work",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/work"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jack_Vance#Vandals_of_the_Void_(1953)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:54"
    },
    {
      "id": "f08f8cec-8816-492f-a6ba-2af629fe4c14",
      "slug": "this-business-of-petty",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/the-road-to-wigan-pier/this-business-of-petty",
      "text": "This business of petty inconvenience and indignity, of being kept waiting about, of having to do everything at other people's convenience, is inherent in working-class life. A thousand influences constantly press a working man down into a passive role. He does not act, he is acted upon. He feels himself the slave of mysterious authority and has a firm conviction that 'they' will never allow him to do this, that, and the other.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Road to Wigan Pier",
        "slug": "the-road-to-wigan-pier",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/the-road-to-wigan-pier"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "work",
          "slug": "work",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/work"
        },
        {
          "name": "poverty",
          "slug": "poverty",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/poverty"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Road_to_Wigan_Pier#Quotes",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:50"
    },
    {
      "id": "46c6f96d-a714-42de-ac00-7638fcbaa380",
      "slug": "and-if-a-man",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hobbes/leviathan/and-if-a-man",
      "text": "And if a man consider the original of this great Ecclesiastical Dominion, he will easily perceive, that the Papacy, is no other than the Ghost of the deceased Romane Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof: For so did the Papacy start up on a Sudden out of the Ruines of that Heathen Power.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Thomas Hobbes",
        "slug": "thomas-hobbes",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hobbes"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Leviathan",
        "slug": "leviathan",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hobbes/leviathan"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 386,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "religion",
          "slug": "religion",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/religion"
        },
        {
          "name": "history",
          "slug": "history",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/history"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Hobbes#Chapter_46",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:48"
    },
    {
      "id": "f1072a22-85dc-479b-a65d-2dc4aa6936c7",
      "slug": "the-value-or-worth",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hobbes/leviathan/the-value-or-worth",
      "text": "The Value or WORTH of a man, is as of all other things, his Price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his Power...",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Thomas Hobbes",
        "slug": "thomas-hobbes",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hobbes"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Leviathan",
        "slug": "leviathan",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hobbes/leviathan"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 42,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "human nature",
          "slug": "human-nature",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/human-nature"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Hobbes#Chapter_10",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:47"
    },
    {
      "id": "efc76e9e-b15f-4111-8206-c0f4e9f482ba",
      "slug": "for-the-lawes",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hobbes/leviathan/for-the-lawes",
      "text": "For the Lawes of Nature (as Justice, Equity, Modesty, Mercy, and (in summe)doing to others, as wee would be done to,) of themselves, without the terrour of some Power, to cause them to be observed, are contrary to our naturall Passions, that carry us to Partiality, Pride, Revenge, and the like. And Covenants, without the Sword, are but Words, and of no strength to secure a man at all.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Thomas Hobbes",
        "slug": "thomas-hobbes",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hobbes"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Leviathan",
        "slug": "leviathan",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hobbes/leviathan"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 85,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "justice",
          "slug": "justice",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/justice"
        },
        {
          "name": "law",
          "slug": "law",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/law"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Hobbes#Chapter_17",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:47"
    },
    {
      "id": "eae04686-8ddf-4089-8108-963c7c8e5729",
      "slug": "i-know-not",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hobbes/leviathan/i-know-not",
      "text": "I know not how the world will receive it, nor how it may reflect on those that shall seem to favor it. For in a way beset with those that contend, on one side for too great Liberty, and on the other side for too much Authority, 'tis hard to passe between the points of both unwounded.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Thomas Hobbes",
        "slug": "thomas-hobbes",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hobbes"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Leviathan",
        "slug": "leviathan",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hobbes/leviathan"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "freedom",
          "slug": "freedom",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Hobbes#Dedication",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:47"
    },
    {
      "id": "e61f4d67-49e2-4771-9455-5d39617813d8",
      "slug": "the-doctrine-of-right",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hobbes/leviathan/the-doctrine-of-right",
      "text": "The doctrine of Right and Wrong, is perpetually disputed, both by Pen and the Sword: Whereas the doctrine of Lines, and Figures, is not so; because men care not, in that subject what be truth, as a thing that crosses no mans ambition, profit, or lust. For I doubt not, but if it had been a thing contrary to any mans right of dominion, or to the interest of men that have dominion, That the three Angles of a Triangle, should be equall to two Angles of a Square; that doctrine should have been, if not disputed, yet by the burning of all books of Geometry, suppressed, as far as he whom it concerned was able.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Thomas Hobbes",
        "slug": "thomas-hobbes",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hobbes"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Leviathan",
        "slug": "leviathan",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hobbes/leviathan"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 80,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "truth",
          "slug": "truth",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/truth"
        },
        {
          "name": "morality",
          "slug": "morality",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/morality"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Hobbes#Chapter_11",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:47"
    },
    {
      "id": "ab07afae-3257-4dcf-983e-09f29dc52b28",
      "slug": "as-in-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hobbes/leviathan/as-in-the",
      "text": "As in the presence of the Master, the Servants are equall, and without any honour at all; So are the Subjects, in the presence of the Soveraign. And though they shine some more, some lesse, when they are out of his sight; yet in his presence, they shine no more than the Starres in presence of the Sun.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Thomas Hobbes",
        "slug": "thomas-hobbes",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hobbes"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Leviathan",
        "slug": "leviathan",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hobbes/leviathan"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 93,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "equality",
          "slug": "equality",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/equality"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Hobbes#Chapter_18",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:47"
    },
    {
      "id": "4971c4c4-f9b6-44a9-a41b-d463c8a412eb",
      "slug": "so-that-in-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hobbes/leviathan/so-that-in-the",
      "text": "So that in the first place, I put for a general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and restless desire of Power after power, that ceaseth only in Death. And the cause of this is not always that a man hopes for a more intensive delight than he has already attained to, or that he cannot be content with a moderate power: but because he cannot assure the power and means to live well, which he hath present, without the acquisition of more.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Thomas Hobbes",
        "slug": "thomas-hobbes",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hobbes"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Leviathan",
        "slug": "leviathan",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hobbes/leviathan"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 47,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "desire",
          "slug": "desire",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/desire"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Hobbes#Chapter_11",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:47"
    },
    {
      "id": "4268300e-9dab-4343-9c3f-6c4f0b45b3c1",
      "slug": "hereby-it-is-manifest",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hobbes/leviathan/hereby-it-is-manifest",
      "text": "Hereby it is manifest, that during the time men live without a common Power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called Warre; and such a warre, as is of every man, against every man.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Thomas Hobbes",
        "slug": "thomas-hobbes",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hobbes"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Leviathan",
        "slug": "leviathan",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hobbes/leviathan"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 62,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "war",
          "slug": "war",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Hobbes#Chapter_13",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:47"
    },
    {
      "id": "20ae58f5-52ba-48a2-b335-07722a3e934e",
      "slug": "i-authorize-and",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hobbes/leviathan/i-authorize-and",
      "text": "\"I Authorize and give up my Right of Governing my selfe, to this Man, or to his Assembly of men, on this condition, that thou that give up thy Right to him, and Authorise all his Actionsin like manner.\" This done, the Multitude so united in one Person, is called a COMMON-WEALTH, in latine CIVITAS. This is the Generation of that LEVIATHAN, or rather (to speake more reverently) of that Mortall God, to which we owe under the Immortal God, our peace and defence.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Thomas Hobbes",
        "slug": "thomas-hobbes",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hobbes"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Leviathan",
        "slug": "leviathan",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hobbes/leviathan"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 87,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "the state",
          "slug": "the-state",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-state"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Hobbes#Chapter_17",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:47"
    },
    {
      "id": "fd172f16-4f1f-4d2e-aa3c-65565b6d663f",
      "slug": "there-is-a-tragic",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/a-man-without-a-country/there-is-a-tragic",
      "text": "There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Kurt Vonnegut",
        "slug": "kurt-vonnegut",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Man Without a Country",
        "slug": "a-man-without-a-country",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/a-man-without-a-country"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "humor",
          "slug": "humor",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor"
        },
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut#A_Man_Without_a_Country_(2005)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:45"
    },
    {
      "id": "bc1e908f-31e4-458a-be69-70ea3ec02da8",
      "slug": "the-world-cant",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/welcome-to-the-monkey-house/the-world-cant",
      "text": "\"The world can't afford sex anymore.\"\n\n\"Of course it can afford sex,\" said Billy. \"All it can't afford anymore is reproduction.\"\n\n\"Then why the laws?\"\n\n\"They're bad laws,\" said Billy. \"If you go back through history, you'll find that the people who have been most eager to rule, to make the laws, to enforce the laws and to tell everybody exactly how God Almighty wants things here on earth—those people have forgiven themselves and their friends for anything and everything. But they have been absolutely disgusted and terrified by the natural sexuality of common men and women.\"",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Kurt Vonnegut",
        "slug": "kurt-vonnegut",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Welcome to the Monkey House",
        "slug": "welcome-to-the-monkey-house",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/welcome-to-the-monkey-house"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 45,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "hypocrisy",
          "slug": "hypocrisy",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hypocrisy"
        },
        {
          "name": "sex",
          "slug": "sex",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sex"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut#Welcome_to_the_Monkey_House_(1968)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:38"
    },
    {
      "id": "1fe10daf-1d0d-44ef-9d26-036c83a27ac2",
      "slug": "sometimes-i-wonder",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/cats-cradle/sometimes-i-wonder",
      "text": "“Sometimes I wonder if he wasn’t born dead. I never met a man who was less interested in the living. Sometimes I think that’s the trouble with the world: too many people in high places who are stone-cold dead.”",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Kurt Vonnegut",
        "slug": "kurt-vonnegut",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Cat's Cradle",
        "slug": "cats-cradle",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/cats-cradle"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "indifference",
          "slug": "indifference",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/indifference"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cat's_Cradle#Quotes",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:37"
    },
    {
      "id": "044b3e4b-90b3-4a63-b96a-e38727e43ce9",
      "slug": "pay-no-attention",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/cats-cradle/pay-no-attention",
      "text": "Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn’t have the slightest idea what’s really going on.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Kurt Vonnegut",
        "slug": "kurt-vonnegut",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Cat's Cradle",
        "slug": "cats-cradle",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/cats-cradle"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cat's_Cradle#Quotes",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:37"
    },
    {
      "id": "d035d339-0ad0-468d-85a3-9f670a3b9e9c",
      "slug": "few-people-have",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/theodore-dreiser/the-financier/few-people-have",
      "text": "Few people have the sense of financial individuality strongly developed. They do not know what it means to be a controller of wealth, to have that which releases the sources of social action—its medium of exchange. They want money, but not for money's sake. They want it for what it will buy in the way of simple comforts, whereas the financier wants it for what it will control—for what it will represent in the way of dignity, force, power.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Theodore Dreiser",
        "slug": "theodore-dreiser",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/theodore-dreiser"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Financier",
        "slug": "the-financier",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/theodore-dreiser/the-financier"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "money",
          "slug": "money",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/money"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Theodore_Dreiser#The_Financier_(1912)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:21"
    },
    {
      "id": "c5487c2f-1f65-4979-9877-262553caf4de",
      "slug": "the-most-defenseless",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michel-foucault/the-history-of-sexuality/the-most-defenseless",
      "text": "The most defenseless tenderness and the bloodiest of powers have a similar need of confession. Western man has become a confessing animal.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Michel Foucault",
        "slug": "michel-foucault",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michel-foucault"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The History of Sexuality",
        "slug": "the-history-of-sexuality",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michel-foucault/the-history-of-sexuality"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 59,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "honesty",
          "slug": "honesty",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/honesty"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault#History_of_Sexuality_(1976%E2%80%931984)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:20"
    },
    {
      "id": "8c100b67-c831-48e0-b613-3f9c69a877a7",
      "slug": "confession-frees-but",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michel-foucault/the-history-of-sexuality/confession-frees-but",
      "text": "Confession frees, but power reduces one to silence; truth does not belong to the order of power, but shares an original affinity with freedom: traditional themes in philosophy, which a political history of truth would have to overturn by showing that truth is not by nature free--nor error servile--but that its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power. The confession is an example of this.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Michel Foucault",
        "slug": "michel-foucault",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michel-foucault"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The History of Sexuality",
        "slug": "the-history-of-sexuality",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michel-foucault/the-history-of-sexuality"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 60,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "freedom",
          "slug": "freedom",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom"
        },
        {
          "name": "truth",
          "slug": "truth",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/truth"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault#History_of_Sexuality_(1976%E2%80%931984)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:20"
    },
    {
      "id": "f528fae2-313c-4cb0-885e-01eec0336c23",
      "slug": "the-perfect-disciplinary",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michel-foucault/discipline-and-punish/the-perfect-disciplinary",
      "text": "The perfect disciplinary apparatus would make it possible for a single haze to see everything constantly. A central point would be both the source of light illuminating everything, and a locus of convergence for everything that must be known: a perfect eye that nothing would escape and a centre towards which all gazes would be turned.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Michel Foucault",
        "slug": "michel-foucault",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michel-foucault"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Discipline and Punish",
        "slug": "discipline-and-punish",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michel-foucault/discipline-and-punish"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "privacy",
          "slug": "privacy",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/privacy"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault#Discipline_and_Punish_(1977)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:19"
    },
    {
      "id": "cd9fa189-aa56-4edf-a08a-3ca51e1fad0f",
      "slug": "the-judges-of-normality",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michel-foucault/discipline-and-punish/the-judges-of-normality",
      "text": "The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the social worker-judge; it is on them that the universal reign of the normative is based; and each individual, wherever he may find himself, subjects to it his body, his gestures, his behavior, his aptitudes, his achievements.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Michel Foucault",
        "slug": "michel-foucault",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michel-foucault"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Discipline and Punish",
        "slug": "discipline-and-punish",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michel-foucault/discipline-and-punish"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "conformity",
          "slug": "conformity",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/conformity"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault#Discipline_and_Punish_(1977)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:19"
    },
    {
      "id": "a4913bd3-fa48-4de2-b7dd-29d377e17ff0",
      "slug": "the-public-execution",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michel-foucault/discipline-and-punish/the-public-execution",
      "text": "The public execution is to be understood not only as a judicial, but also as a political ritual. It belongs, even in minor cases, to the ceremonies by which power is manifested.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Michel Foucault",
        "slug": "michel-foucault",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michel-foucault"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Discipline and Punish",
        "slug": "discipline-and-punish",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michel-foucault/discipline-and-punish"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "punishment",
          "slug": "punishment",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/punishment"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault#Discipline_and_Punish_(1977)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:19"
    },
    {
      "id": "a1a579b4-62c9-44c0-b329-7951676f515f",
      "slug": "the-enlightenment-which",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michel-foucault/discipline-and-punish/the-enlightenment-which",
      "text": "The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Michel Foucault",
        "slug": "michel-foucault",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michel-foucault"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Discipline and Punish",
        "slug": "discipline-and-punish",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michel-foucault/discipline-and-punish"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "freedom",
          "slug": "freedom",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault#Discipline_and_Punish_(1977)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:19"
    },
    {
      "id": "93162f49-9ec5-4fd2-8a06-d35a4b176850",
      "slug": "the-public-execution-then",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michel-foucault/discipline-and-punish/the-public-execution-then",
      "text": "The public execution, then, has a juridico-political function. It is a ceremonial by which a momentarily injured sovereignty is reconstituted. It restores that sovereignty by manifesting it at its most spectacular. The public execution, however hasty and everyday, belongs to a whole series of great rituals in which power is eclipsed and restored (coronation, entry of the king into a conquered city, the submission of rebellious subjects); over and above the crime that has placed the sovereign in contempt, it deploys before all eyes an invincible force. Its aim is not so much to re-establish a balance as to bring into play, as its extreme point, the dissymmetry between the subject who has dared to violate the law and the all-powerful sovereign who displays his strength.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Michel Foucault",
        "slug": "michel-foucault",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michel-foucault"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Discipline and Punish",
        "slug": "discipline-and-punish",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michel-foucault/discipline-and-punish"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "punishment",
          "slug": "punishment",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/punishment"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault#Discipline_and_Punish_(1977)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:19"
    },
    {
      "id": "91be1b4c-ec8e-4e64-a35d-a2499d356d42",
      "slug": "discipline-makes-individuals",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michel-foucault/discipline-and-punish/discipline-makes-individuals",
      "text": "Discipline 'makes' individuals; it is the specific technique of a power that regards individuals both as objects and as instruments of its exercise. It is not a triumphant power...it is a modest, suspicious power, which functions as a calculated, but permanent economy.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Michel Foucault",
        "slug": "michel-foucault",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michel-foucault"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Discipline and Punish",
        "slug": "discipline-and-punish",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michel-foucault/discipline-and-punish"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault#Discipline_and_Punish_(1977)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:19"
    },
    {
      "id": "8af689f7-63c9-438b-8f03-795567fc7acc",
      "slug": "he-who-is-subjected",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michel-foucault/discipline-and-punish/he-who-is-subjected",
      "text": "He who is subjected to a field of visibility, and who knows it, assumes responsibility for the constraints of power; he makes them play spontaneously upon himself; he inscribes in himself the power relation in which he simultaneously plays both roles; he becomes the principle of his own subjection.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Michel Foucault",
        "slug": "michel-foucault",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michel-foucault"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Discipline and Punish",
        "slug": "discipline-and-punish",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michel-foucault/discipline-and-punish"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "self-control",
          "slug": "self-control",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/self-control"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault#Discipline_and_Punish_(1977)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:19"
    },
    {
      "id": "7455eb41-b54d-4da7-85ae-17f533a402c4",
      "slug": "if-torture-was",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michel-foucault/discipline-and-punish/if-torture-was",
      "text": "If torture was so strongly embedded in legal practice, it was because it revealed truth and showed the operation of power. It assured the articulation of the written on the oral, the secret on the public, the procedure of investigation on the operation of the confession; it made it possible to reproduce the crime on the visible body of the criminal.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Michel Foucault",
        "slug": "michel-foucault",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michel-foucault"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Discipline and Punish",
        "slug": "discipline-and-punish",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michel-foucault/discipline-and-punish"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 55,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "truth",
          "slug": "truth",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/truth"
        },
        {
          "name": "torture",
          "slug": "torture",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/torture"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault#Discipline_and_Punish_(1977)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:19"
    },
    {
      "id": "70b8d7f9-0477-4e58-ab95-a71d9e76eb41",
      "slug": "a-real-subjection",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michel-foucault/discipline-and-punish/a-real-subjection",
      "text": "A real subjection is born mechanically from a fictitious relation. So it is not necessary to use force to constrain the convict to good behavior, the madman to calm, the worker to work, the schoolboy to application, the patient to the observation of the regulations",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Michel Foucault",
        "slug": "michel-foucault",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michel-foucault"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Discipline and Punish",
        "slug": "discipline-and-punish",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michel-foucault/discipline-and-punish"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "obedience",
          "slug": "obedience",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/obedience"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault#Discipline_and_Punish_(1977)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:19"
    },
    {
      "id": "539d47ed-93f6-4bd6-b2d6-f597d9ce0876",
      "slug": "the-chief-function",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michel-foucault/discipline-and-punish/the-chief-function",
      "text": "The chief function of the disciplinary power is to 'train', rather than to select and to levy; or, no doubt, to train in order to levy and select all the more. It does not link forces together in order to reduce them; it seeks to bind them together in such a way as to multiply and use them",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Michel Foucault",
        "slug": "michel-foucault",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michel-foucault"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Discipline and Punish",
        "slug": "discipline-and-punish",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michel-foucault/discipline-and-punish"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "obedience",
          "slug": "obedience",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/obedience"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault#Discipline_and_Punish_(1977)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:19"
    },
    {
      "id": "47eac385-2f6c-4328-9539-13d6f3012146",
      "slug": "the-criticism-of-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michel-foucault/discipline-and-punish/the-criticism-of-the",
      "text": "The criticism of the reformers was directed not so much at the weakness or cruelty of those in authority, as at a bad economy of power.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Michel Foucault",
        "slug": "michel-foucault",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michel-foucault"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Discipline and Punish",
        "slug": "discipline-and-punish",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michel-foucault/discipline-and-punish"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault#Discipline_and_Punish_(1977)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:19"
    },
    {
      "id": "4573c255-7081-4996-b4dc-7e8eec290236",
      "slug": "beneath-the-humanization",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michel-foucault/discipline-and-punish/beneath-the-humanization",
      "text": "Beneath the humanization of the penalties, what one finds are all those rules that authorize, or rather demand, 'leniency', as a calculated economy of the powder to punish. But they also provoke a shift in the point of application of this power: it is no longer the body, with the ritual play of excessive pains, spectacular branding in the ritual of the public execution; it is the mind or rather a play of representations and sings circulating discreetly but necessarily and evidently in the minds of all. It is no longer the body, but the soul, said Mably. And we see very clearly what he meant by this term: the correlative of a technique of power. Old 'anatomies' of punishment are abandoned, But have we really entered the age of non-corporal punishment?",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Michel Foucault",
        "slug": "michel-foucault",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michel-foucault"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Discipline and Punish",
        "slug": "discipline-and-punish",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michel-foucault/discipline-and-punish"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 101,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "punishment",
          "slug": "punishment",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/punishment"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault#Discipline_and_Punish_(1977)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:19"
    },
    {
      "id": "1ea2e82a-7763-4aea-9c98-543ccae1bd13",
      "slug": "there-is-no-power",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michel-foucault/discipline-and-punish/there-is-no-power",
      "text": "There is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and constitute at the same time power relations",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Michel Foucault",
        "slug": "michel-foucault",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michel-foucault"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Discipline and Punish",
        "slug": "discipline-and-punish",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michel-foucault/discipline-and-punish"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "knowledge",
          "slug": "knowledge",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/knowledge"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault#Discipline_and_Punish_(1977)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:19"
    },
    {
      "id": "17b382fb-b92b-467b-b65d-12e45f886fc7",
      "slug": "the-man-described",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michel-foucault/discipline-and-punish/the-man-described",
      "text": "The man described for us, whom we are invited to free, is already in himself the effect of a subjection much more profound than himself. A 'soul' inhabits him and brings him to existence...the soul is the effect and instrument of political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Michel Foucault",
        "slug": "michel-foucault",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michel-foucault"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Discipline and Punish",
        "slug": "discipline-and-punish",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michel-foucault/discipline-and-punish"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "soul",
          "slug": "soul",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/soul"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault#Discipline_and_Punish_(1977)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:19"
    },
    {
      "id": "047066d7-a303-4089-9376-abcf91bac51b",
      "slug": "is-it-surprising",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michel-foucault/discipline-and-punish/is-it-surprising",
      "text": "Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Michel Foucault",
        "slug": "michel-foucault",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michel-foucault"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Discipline and Punish",
        "slug": "discipline-and-punish",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michel-foucault/discipline-and-punish"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 228,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "prison",
          "slug": "prison",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/prison"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault#Discipline_and_Punish_(1977)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:19"
    },
    {
      "id": "b662daf6-7a0d-4f3f-8156-8301dba8f2cc",
      "slug": "the-desire-to-force",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/heartfire/the-desire-to-force",
      "text": "The desire to force others to bend or break to her will was always there, usually hidden deeply enough that she could forget she had that wish within her, but occasionally surfacing to dangle the ripe fruit of power just out of her reach. She knew, as few others did, that the power to coerce depended entirely on the fear or weakness of other human beings. It was possible to use coercion, yes, but in the end you found yourself surrounded only by the weak and fearful, with all those of courage and strength arrayed against you.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Orson Scott Card",
        "slug": "orson-scott-card",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Heartfire",
        "slug": "heartfire",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/heartfire"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "fear",
          "slug": "fear",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card#Heartfire_(1998)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:14"
    },
    {
      "id": "ad62c973-9672-4e0c-b7f7-3205f968a995",
      "slug": "evil-people-naturally",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/heartfire/evil-people-naturally",
      "text": "Evil people naturally assume that you will use that power exactly as they would use it.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Orson Scott Card",
        "slug": "orson-scott-card",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Heartfire",
        "slug": "heartfire",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/heartfire"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "evil",
          "slug": "evil",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/evil"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card#Heartfire_(1998)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:14"
    },
    {
      "id": "933a9418-7f7f-4a57-8025-a5d26b95785d",
      "slug": "once-you-have",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/heartfire/once-you-have",
      "text": "Once you have the gallows, you'll find new reasons to hang people from it.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Orson Scott Card",
        "slug": "orson-scott-card",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Heartfire",
        "slug": "heartfire",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/heartfire"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "punishment",
          "slug": "punishment",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/punishment"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card#Heartfire_(1998)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:14"
    },
    {
      "id": "557741bc-3cf6-4e1c-982f-f0d1fe390b1e",
      "slug": "you-know-if-you",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/alvin-journeyman/you-know-if-you",
      "text": "You know, if you hurt people enough, eventually they'll all call you whatever you want. Maker. King. Captain. Boss. Master. Holy One. Pick your title, you can beat people into calling you that. But you don't change yourself a bit. All you do is change the meanings of those words, so they all mean the same thing: Bully.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Orson Scott Card",
        "slug": "orson-scott-card",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Alvin Journeyman",
        "slug": "alvin-journeyman",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/alvin-journeyman"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "violence",
          "slug": "violence",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/violence"
        },
        {
          "name": "words",
          "slug": "words",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/words"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card#Alvin_Journeyman_(1995)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:13"
    },
    {
      "id": "51ec92a9-632a-46a5-852d-e6db68397676",
      "slug": "you-think-this",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/alvin-journeyman/you-think-this",
      "text": "You think this because you are a nasty person by nature, Calvin, and you don't understand nice people. To you, the end of existence is to control things, and so you will never build anything, but rather will try to take control of what is already in existence. Your brother, though, is by nature a Maker, as you explain it; therefore he cares nothing about who rules, but only about what exists.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Orson Scott Card",
        "slug": "orson-scott-card",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Alvin Journeyman",
        "slug": "alvin-journeyman",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/alvin-journeyman"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "character",
          "slug": "character",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/character"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card#Alvin_Journeyman_(1995)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:13"
    },
    {
      "id": "3059a4d8-d317-4ba0-85d1-4d1a7a23bba8",
      "slug": "whenever-the-law",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/alvin-journeyman/whenever-the-law",
      "text": "Whenever the law gets its hands on you, those who use the law to their own advantage will also turn it against you. Don't put your trust in the laws of men, Alvin. They were designed by strong men to improve their power over weaker ones.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Orson Scott Card",
        "slug": "orson-scott-card",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Alvin Journeyman",
        "slug": "alvin-journeyman",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/alvin-journeyman"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "law",
          "slug": "law",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/law"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card#Alvin_Journeyman_(1995)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:13"
    },
    {
      "id": "24c4ba9a-47d4-4726-a209-f6afd0d5f896",
      "slug": "she-dont-set",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/prentice-alvin/she-dont-set",
      "text": "She don't set no store to see a king. Her pa a king back in Africa, and they shoot him dead. Them Portuguese slavers show her what it mean to be a king—it mean you die quick like everybody, and spill blood red like everybody, and cry out loud in pain and scared—oh, fine to be a king, and fine to see one. Do them White folk believe this lie?",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Orson Scott Card",
        "slug": "orson-scott-card",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Prentice Alvin",
        "slug": "prentice-alvin",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/prentice-alvin"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "death",
          "slug": "death",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/death"
        },
        {
          "name": "slavery",
          "slug": "slavery",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/slavery"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card#Prentice_Alvin_(1989)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:12"
    },
    {
      "id": "6eb18c6e-499a-4af5-9d1b-20e27a3a5006",
      "slug": "just-because-you",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/the-ships-of-earth/just-because-you",
      "text": "Just because you live every waking moment with dreams of controlling other people doesn't mean the rest of us do.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Orson Scott Card",
        "slug": "orson-scott-card",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Ships Of Earth",
        "slug": "the-ships-of-earth",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/the-ships-of-earth"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "manipulation",
          "slug": "manipulation",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/manipulation"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card#The_Ships_Of_Earth_(1994)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:10"
    },
    {
      "id": "d84e972f-e05d-4ea5-809d-6a035be7c6ca",
      "slug": "money-only-buys",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/the-call-of-earth/money-only-buys",
      "text": "Money only buys the illusion of power. Real power is in the force of will — will strong enough that others bend to it for its own sake, and follow it willingly. Power that is won through deception will evaporate under the hot light of truth.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Orson Scott Card",
        "slug": "orson-scott-card",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Call Of Earth",
        "slug": "the-call-of-earth",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/the-call-of-earth"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "truth",
          "slug": "truth",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/truth"
        },
        {
          "name": "money",
          "slug": "money",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/money"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card#The_Call_Of_Earth_(1992)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:09"
    },
    {
      "id": "2959d0fa-c96f-4df8-a28a-1e2034baaad1",
      "slug": "how-does-he",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/the-call-of-earth/how-does-he",
      "text": "How does he do it? How does he master people without bluster or bullying? How does he make people fear him or love him, not in spite of his ruthlessness but because of it?",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Orson Scott Card",
        "slug": "orson-scott-card",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Call Of Earth",
        "slug": "the-call-of-earth",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/the-call-of-earth"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "leadership",
          "slug": "leadership",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/leadership"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card#The_Call_Of_Earth_(1992)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:09"
    },
    {
      "id": "6fc0faba-f00a-4f2a-a348-629d2df31043",
      "slug": "power-corrupts-and",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/lullaby/power-corrupts-and",
      "text": "Power corrupts. And absolute power corrupts absolutely.\n\nSo just relax, Helen Boyle told me, and just enjoy the ride.\n\nShe said, \"Even absolute corruption has its perks.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Chuck Palahniuk",
        "slug": "chuck-palahniuk",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Lullaby",
        "slug": "lullaby",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/lullaby"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "humor",
          "slug": "humor",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor"
        },
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "corruption",
          "slug": "corruption",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/corruption"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Chuck_Palahniuk#Lullaby_(2002)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:58"
    },
    {
      "id": "4c3abfff-a90e-4906-a61f-1de8779e38de",
      "slug": "you-turn-up-your",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/lullaby/you-turn-up-your",
      "text": "You turn up your music to hide the noise. Other people turn up their music to hide yours. You turn up yours again. Everyone buys a bigger stereo system. This is the arms race of sound You don't win with a lot of treble. This isn't about quality. It's about volume. This isn't about music. This is about winning. You stomp the competition with the bass line. You rattle windows. You drop the melody line, and shout the lyrics. You put in foul language and come down hard on each cussword. You dominate. This is really about power.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Chuck Palahniuk",
        "slug": "chuck-palahniuk",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Lullaby",
        "slug": "lullaby",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/lullaby"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "music",
          "slug": "music",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/music"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Chuck_Palahniuk#Lullaby_(2002)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:58"
    },
    {
      "id": "36845fba-e290-4b86-9c8b-8341715ca33c",
      "slug": "the-police-are",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/claude-levi-strauss/tristes-tropiques/the-police-are",
      "text": "The police are not entrusted with a mission which differentiates them from those they serve. Being unconcerned with ultimate purposes, they are inseparable from the persons and interests of their masters, and shine with their reflected glory.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Claude Lévi-Strauss",
        "slug": "claude-levi-strauss",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/claude-levi-strauss"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Tristes Tropiques",
        "slug": "tristes-tropiques",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/claude-levi-strauss/tristes-tropiques"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 378,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "police",
          "slug": "police",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/police"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Claude_L%C3%A9vi-Strauss#Tristes_Tropiques_(1955)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:57"
    },
    {
      "id": "14b34c19-f8ed-4336-932f-b0c4002ebc58",
      "slug": "when-it-come",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-ende/the-neverending-story/when-it-come",
      "text": "When it come to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Michael Ende",
        "slug": "michael-ende",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-ende"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Neverending Story",
        "slug": "the-neverending-story",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-ende/the-neverending-story"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "lies",
          "slug": "lies",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/lies"
        },
        {
          "name": "manipulation",
          "slug": "manipulation",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/manipulation"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Neverending_Story#Quotes",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:56"
    },
    {
      "id": "ad1706ba-d407-42ad-9ef5-9f1fd06412d2",
      "slug": "economic-power-is-exercised",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand/capitalism/economic-power-is-exercised",
      "text": "Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Ayn Rand",
        "slug": "ayn-rand",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Capitalism",
        "slug": "capitalism",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand/capitalism"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "fear",
          "slug": "fear",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear"
        },
        {
          "name": "business",
          "slug": "business",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/business"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand#Capitalism:_The_Unknown_Ideal_(1966)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:52"
    },
    {
      "id": "057ba074-565c-4ba9-8a3e-a2441ad1d612",
      "slug": "so-long-as-men",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand/capitalism/so-long-as-men",
      "text": "So long as [men] hold the tribal notion that the individual is sacrificial fodder for the collective, that some men have the right to rule others by force, and that some (any) alleged 'good' can justify It — there can be no peace ‘within’ a nation and no peace among nations.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Ayn Rand",
        "slug": "ayn-rand",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Capitalism",
        "slug": "capitalism",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand/capitalism"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "peace",
          "slug": "peace",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace"
        },
        {
          "name": "individualism",
          "slug": "individualism",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/individualism"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand#Capitalism:_The_Unknown_Ideal_(1966)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:52"
    },
    {
      "id": "11954ef3-b971-4720-896b-ac38059b3494",
      "slug": "you-see-control",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-s-burroughs/naked-lunch/you-see-control",
      "text": "You see control can never be a means to any practical end. ... Control can never be a means to anything but more control ... like Junk.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "William S. Burroughs",
        "slug": "william-s-burroughs",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-s-burroughs"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Naked Lunch",
        "slug": "naked-lunch",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-s-burroughs/naked-lunch"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "addiction",
          "slug": "addiction",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/addiction"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_S._Burroughs#Naked_Lunch_(1959)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:46"
    },
    {
      "id": "c6edafa3-842a-44f2-9046-48abfe90c8aa",
      "slug": "it-is-a-political",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/aldous-huxley/brave-new-world-revisited/it-is-a-political",
      "text": "It is a political axiom that power follows property.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Aldous Huxley",
        "slug": "aldous-huxley",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/aldous-huxley"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Brave New World Revisited",
        "slug": "brave-new-world-revisited",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/aldous-huxley/brave-new-world-revisited"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 113,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "private property",
          "slug": "private-property",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/private-property"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aldous_Huxley#Brave_New_World_Revisited_(1958)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:37"
    },
    {
      "id": "9263dd46-7d07-4799-aabc-54db35dcf688",
      "slug": "the-nature-of-power",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/aldous-huxley/brave-new-world-revisited/the-nature-of-power",
      "text": "The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Aldous Huxley",
        "slug": "aldous-huxley",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/aldous-huxley"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Brave New World Revisited",
        "slug": "brave-new-world-revisited",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/aldous-huxley/brave-new-world-revisited"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 12,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aldous_Huxley#Brave_New_World_Revisited_(1958)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:37"
    },
    {
      "id": "4a9c9bb7-10a1-4b94-a901-aee0276d3073",
      "slug": "democracy-can-hardly",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/aldous-huxley/brave-new-world-revisited/democracy-can-hardly",
      "text": "Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Aldous Huxley",
        "slug": "aldous-huxley",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/aldous-huxley"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Brave New World Revisited",
        "slug": "brave-new-world-revisited",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/aldous-huxley/brave-new-world-revisited"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 19,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "technology",
          "slug": "technology",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/technology"
        },
        {
          "name": "democracy",
          "slug": "democracy",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/democracy"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aldous_Huxley#Brave_New_World_Revisited_(1958)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:37"
    },
    {
      "id": "f2f0fd8e-77df-4a1f-ba28-268db5779f49",
      "slug": "well-dutys-duty",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/aldous-huxley/brave-new-world/well-dutys-duty",
      "text": "Well, duty's duty. One can't consult one's own preference. I'm interested in truth, I like science. But truth's a menace, science is a public danger. As dangerous as it's been beneficent. It has given us the stablest equilibrium in history. China's was hopelessly insecure by comparison; even the primitive matriarchies weren't steadier than we are. Thanks, I repeat, to science. But we can't allow science to undo its own good work. That's why we so carefully limit the scope of its researches–that's why I almost got sent to an island. We don't allow it to deal with any but the most immediate problems of the moment. All other enquiries are most sedulously discouraged.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Aldous Huxley",
        "slug": "aldous-huxley",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/aldous-huxley"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Brave New World",
        "slug": "brave-new-world",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/aldous-huxley/brave-new-world"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "science",
          "slug": "science",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/science"
        },
        {
          "name": "truth",
          "slug": "truth",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/truth"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Brave_New_World#Chapter_16",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:35"
    },
    {
      "id": "f01e437a-5493-4601-8bb2-693ce4a94f95",
      "slug": "liberalism-of-course",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/aldous-huxley/brave-new-world/liberalism-of-course",
      "text": "\"Liberalism, of course, was dead of anthrax, but all the same you couldn't do things by force.\"",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Aldous Huxley",
        "slug": "aldous-huxley",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/aldous-huxley"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Brave New World",
        "slug": "brave-new-world",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/aldous-huxley/brave-new-world"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "violence",
          "slug": "violence",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/violence"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Brave_New_World#Chapter_3",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:34"
    },
    {
      "id": "c7febcff-996a-485d-b88c-1bcb7ec0adae",
      "slug": "governments-an-affair",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/aldous-huxley/brave-new-world/governments-an-affair",
      "text": "\"Government's an affair of sitting, not hitting. You rule with the brains and the buttocks, never with the fists.\"",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Aldous Huxley",
        "slug": "aldous-huxley",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/aldous-huxley"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Brave New World",
        "slug": "brave-new-world",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/aldous-huxley/brave-new-world"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "humor",
          "slug": "humor",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor"
        },
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Brave_New_World#Chapter_3",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:34"
    },
    {
      "id": "a6223667-70ea-4e9f-856d-cd235bbb4e80",
      "slug": "whatever-the-case",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-w-said/from-oslo-to-iraq-and-the-road-map/whatever-the-case",
      "text": "Whatever the case, the publication of “What Are American Values?” augurs a new and degraded era in the production of intellectual discourse. For when the intellectuals of the most powerful country in the history of the world align themselves so flagrantly with that power, pressing that power’s case instead of urging restraint, reflection, genuine communication, and understanding, we are back to the bad old days of the intellectual war against communism, which we now know brought far too many compromises, collaborations, and fabrications on the part of intellectuals and artists who should have played an altogether different role. Subsidized and underwritten by the government (the CIA especially, which went so far as to provide for the subvention of magazines like Encounter, underwrote scholarly research, travel, and concerts as well as artistic exhibitions), those militantly unreflective and uncritical intellectuals and artists in the 1950s and 1960s brought the whole notion of intellectual honesty and complicity a new and disastrous dimension. For along with that effort went also the domestic campaign to stifle debate, intimidate critics, and restrict thought. For many Americans, like myself, this is a shameful episode in our history, and we must be on our guard against and resist its return.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Edward W. Said",
        "slug": "edward-w-said",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-w-said"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "From Oslo to Iraq and the Road Map",
        "slug": "from-oslo-to-iraq-and-the-road-map",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-w-said/from-oslo-to-iraq-and-the-road-map"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "intellectuals",
          "slug": "intellectuals",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/intellectuals"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edward_Said#From_Oslo_to_Iraq_and_the_Road_Map_(2004)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:23"
    },
    {
      "id": "0ba3e1a1-5722-45a8-8ef5-3a42ed93a0d7",
      "slug": "as-the-arab",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-w-said/from-oslo-to-iraq-and-the-road-map/as-the-arab",
      "text": "As the Arab world spins into further incoherence and shame, it is up to every one of us to speak up against these terrible abuses of power. No one is safe unless every citizen protests what in effect is a reversion to medieval practices of autocracy. If we accuse Israel of what it has done to the Palestinians, we must be willing to apply exactly the same standards of behavior to our own countries. This norm is as true for the American as for the Arab and the Israeli intellectual, who must criticize human rights abuses from a universal point of view, not simply when they occur within the domain of an officially designated enemy. Our own cause is strengthened when we take positions that can be applied to all situations, without conditions such as saying “I disagree with his views, but” as a way of lessening the difficulty and the onus of speaking out. The truth is that, as Arabs, all we have left now is the power of speaking out, and unless we exercise that right, the slide into terminal degeneration cannot ever be stopped. The hour is very late . . .",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Edward W. Said",
        "slug": "edward-w-said",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-w-said"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "From Oslo to Iraq and the Road Map",
        "slug": "from-oslo-to-iraq-and-the-road-map",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-w-said/from-oslo-to-iraq-and-the-road-map"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "responsibility",
          "slug": "responsibility",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/responsibility"
        },
        {
          "name": "tyranny",
          "slug": "tyranny",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/tyranny"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edward_Said#From_Oslo_to_Iraq_and_the_Road_Map_(2004)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:23"
    },
    {
      "id": "f6b4ec9a-2b94-48a1-a87e-1f9adf04e644",
      "slug": "the-prevailing-situation",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-w-said/the-world-the-text-and-the-critic/the-prevailing-situation",
      "text": "The prevailing situation of criticism ... has given rise to a cult of professional expertise whose effect in general is pernicious. For the intellectual class, expertise has usually been a service rendered, and sold, to the central authority of society. This is the trahison des clercs of which Julien Benda spoke in the 1920s. Expertise in foreign affairs, for example, has usually meant the legitimization of the conduct of foreign policy and, what is more to the point, a sustained investment in revalidating the role of experts in foreign affairs. The same sort of thing is true of literary critics and professional humanists, except that their expertise is based upon noninterference in what Vico grandly calls the world of nations but which prosaically might just as well be called “the world.” We tell our students and our general constituency that we defend the classics, the virtues of a liberal education, and the precious pleasures of literature even as we also show ourselves to be silent (perhaps incompetent) about the historical and social world in which all these things take place. ... Humanists and intellectuals accept the idea that ... cultural types are not supposed to interfere in matters for which the social system has not certified them.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Edward W. Said",
        "slug": "edward-w-said",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-w-said"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The World, the Text, and the Critic",
        "slug": "the-world-the-text-and-the-critic",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-w-said/the-world-the-text-and-the-critic"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 2,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "intellectuals",
          "slug": "intellectuals",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/intellectuals"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edward_Said#The_World,_the_Text,_and_the_Critic_(1983)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:22"
    },
    {
      "id": "6450e094-0de3-446b-b1b6-0c604d5d69ca",
      "slug": "remember-that-cnn",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-w-said/from-oslo-to-iraq-and-the-road-map/remember-that-cnn",
      "text": "Remember that CNN, Time Warner, Disney, NBC, Fox News, and the rest are part of the same ideological system, serve the same clientele, and are owned by the same relatively tiny group of people whose interest is to keep things as they are. Memory is an inhibition, a possible threat to their hegemony, just as it is very dangerous for a critic to keep making connections between supposedly un- or nonpolitical institutions like the Supreme Court and the Constitution, and on the other hand, base commercial interests.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Edward W. Said",
        "slug": "edward-w-said",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-w-said"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "From Oslo to Iraq and the Road Map",
        "slug": "from-oslo-to-iraq-and-the-road-map",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-w-said/from-oslo-to-iraq-and-the-road-map"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "memory",
          "slug": "memory",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/memory"
        },
        {
          "name": "media",
          "slug": "media",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/media"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edward_Said#From_Oslo_to_Iraq_and_the_Road_Map_(2004)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:22"
    },
    {
      "id": "0fde5655-4ad7-46e3-9aff-c2b27cbe74a5",
      "slug": "there-is-no-getting",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-w-said/representations-of-the-intellectual/there-is-no-getting",
      "text": "There is no getting around authority and power, and no getting around the intellectual's relationship to them. How does the intellectual address authority: as a professional supplicant or as its unrewarded, amateurish conscience?",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Edward W. Said",
        "slug": "edward-w-said",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-w-said"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Representations of the Intellectual",
        "slug": "representations-of-the-intellectual",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-w-said/representations-of-the-intellectual"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 83,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "intellectuals",
          "slug": "intellectuals",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/intellectuals"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edward_Said#Representations_of_the_Intellectual:_The_1993_Reith_Lectures",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:22"
    },
    {
      "id": "7e722f4e-ea98-47d6-baec-8a3a68e7001d",
      "slug": "orientalism-can-be-discussed",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-w-said/orientalism/orientalism-can-be-discussed",
      "text": "Orientalism can be discussed and analyzed as the corporate institution for dealing with the Orient—dealing with it by making statements about it, authorizing views of it, describing it, by teaching it, settling it, ruling over it: in short, Orientalism as a Western style for dominating, restructuring, and having authority over the Orient.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Edward W. Said",
        "slug": "edward-w-said",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-w-said"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Orientalism",
        "slug": "orientalism",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-w-said/orientalism"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 3,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "colonialism",
          "slug": "colonialism",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/colonialism"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edward_Said#Orientalism_(1978)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:21"
    },
    {
      "id": "3c3cb64a-2b7f-4fe4-8abe-9e8a17c75b59",
      "slug": "ideas-cultures-and",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-w-said/orientalism/ideas-cultures-and",
      "text": "Ideas, cultures, and histories cannot seriously be understood or studied without their force, or more precisely their configurations of power, also being studied.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Edward W. Said",
        "slug": "edward-w-said",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-w-said"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Orientalism",
        "slug": "orientalism",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-w-said/orientalism"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "history",
          "slug": "history",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/history"
        },
        {
          "name": "culture",
          "slug": "culture",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/culture"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edward_Said#Orientalism_(1978)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:21"
    },
    {
      "id": "bacd5f77-fdfe-458d-b5f0-280c70d662e0",
      "slug": "on-the-throne",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/gore-vidal/julian/on-the-throne",
      "text": "On the throne of the world, any delusion becomes fact.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Gore Vidal",
        "slug": "gore-vidal",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/gore-vidal"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Julian",
        "slug": "julian",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/gore-vidal/julian"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "illusions",
          "slug": "illusions",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/illusions"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gore_Vidal#Julian_(1964)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:18"
    },
    {
      "id": "a15ca2ae-f229-4c77-8adf-5bf007a78208",
      "slug": "traitors-who-prevail",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/gore-vidal/julian/traitors-who-prevail",
      "text": "Traitors who prevail are patriots; usurpers who succeed are divine emperors.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Gore Vidal",
        "slug": "gore-vidal",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/gore-vidal"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Julian",
        "slug": "julian",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/gore-vidal/julian"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "history",
          "slug": "history",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/history"
        },
        {
          "name": "betrayal",
          "slug": "betrayal",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/betrayal"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gore_Vidal#Julian_(1964)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:18"
    },
    {
      "id": "89fc744c-2d8e-4326-ba95-348b8abd50ed",
      "slug": "to-fight-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-k-dick/valis/to-fight-the",
      "text": "To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement ... Whoever defeats the Empire becomes the Empire; it proliferates like a virus ... thereby it becomes its enemies.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Philip K. Dick",
        "slug": "philip-k-dick",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-k-dick"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Valis",
        "slug": "valis",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-k-dick/valis"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "tyranny",
          "slug": "tyranny",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/tyranny"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick#VALIS_(1981)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:08"
    },
    {
      "id": "8072cba5-8e05-4b6f-a226-165cfc4f9bcc",
      "slug": "all-governments-suffer",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/chapterhouse-dune/all-governments-suffer",
      "text": "All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Frank Herbert",
        "slug": "frank-herbert",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Chapterhouse: Dune",
        "slug": "chapterhouse-dune",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/chapterhouse-dune"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "violence",
          "slug": "violence",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/violence"
        },
        {
          "name": "corruption",
          "slug": "corruption",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/corruption"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dune#Chapterhouse:_Dune_(1985)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:55"
    },
    {
      "id": "199e608a-00f0-4b6f-a29b-aa2dfe8ae071",
      "slug": "power-attracts-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/chapterhouse-dune/power-attracts-the",
      "text": "Power attracts the corruptible. Absolute power attracts the absolutely corruptible. This is the danger of an entrenched bureaucracy to it's subject population. Even \"spoils\" systems are preferable because levels of tolerance are lower and the corrupt can be thrown out periodically. Entrenched bureaucracy seldom can be touched short of violence. Beware when Civil service and military join hands!",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Frank Herbert",
        "slug": "frank-herbert",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Chapterhouse: Dune",
        "slug": "chapterhouse-dune",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/chapterhouse-dune"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "bureaucracy",
          "slug": "bureaucracy",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/bureaucracy"
        },
        {
          "name": "corruption",
          "slug": "corruption",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/corruption"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dune#Chapterhouse:_Dune_(1985)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:55"
    },
    {
      "id": "a6302f29-a43a-47ae-9af3-e00ba1095bb2",
      "slug": "power-bases-are",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/god-emperor-of-dune/power-bases-are",
      "text": "Power bases are very dangerous because they attract people who are truly insane, people who seek power only for the sake of power.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Frank Herbert",
        "slug": "frank-herbert",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "God Emperor of Dune",
        "slug": "god-emperor-of-dune",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/god-emperor-of-dune"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "madness",
          "slug": "madness",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/madness"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dune#God_Emperor_of_Dune_(1981)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:54"
    },
    {
      "id": "86bd175e-8b9c-41a3-a912-011bfa8fa8c0",
      "slug": "you-think-power",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/god-emperor-of-dune/you-think-power",
      "text": "You think power may be the most unstable of all human achievements? Then what of the apparent exceptions to this inherent instability? Some families endure. Very powerful religious bureaucracies have been known to endure. Consider the relationship between faith and power. Are they mutually exclusive when each depends upon the other? The Bene Gesserit have been reasonably secure within the loyal walls of faith for thousands of years. But where has their power gone?",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Frank Herbert",
        "slug": "frank-herbert",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "God Emperor of Dune",
        "slug": "god-emperor-of-dune",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/god-emperor-of-dune"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "faith",
          "slug": "faith",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/faith"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dune#God_Emperor_of_Dune_(1981)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:54"
    },
    {
      "id": "bc576b78-2f43-4ea7-b450-7a8e3f8b2a18",
      "slug": "governments-if-they",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/children-of-dune/governments-if-they",
      "text": "Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class — whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Frank Herbert",
        "slug": "frank-herbert",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Children of Dune",
        "slug": "children-of-dune",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/children-of-dune"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "the state",
          "slug": "the-state",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-state"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dune#Children_of_Dune_(1976)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:52"
    },
    {
      "id": "b0109720-1639-49cd-aedc-e4417ab6141f",
      "slug": "this-is-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/children-of-dune/this-is-the",
      "text": "This is the fallacy of power: ultimately it is effective only in an absolute, a limited universe. But the basic lesson of our relativistic universe is that things change. Any power must always meet a greater power. Paul Muad'Dib taught this lesson to the Sardaukar on the Plains of Arrakeen. His descendants have yet to learn the lesson for themselves.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Frank Herbert",
        "slug": "frank-herbert",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Children of Dune",
        "slug": "children-of-dune",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/children-of-dune"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "change",
          "slug": "change",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/change"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dune#Children_of_Dune_(1976)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:52"
    },
    {
      "id": "60644b17-65bb-41c5-b4a8-a1aa297b92d7",
      "slug": "when-i-am-weaker",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/children-of-dune/when-i-am-weaker",
      "text": "When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Frank Herbert",
        "slug": "frank-herbert",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Children of Dune",
        "slug": "children-of-dune",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/children-of-dune"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "freedom",
          "slug": "freedom",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom"
        },
        {
          "name": "hypocrisy",
          "slug": "hypocrisy",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hypocrisy"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dune#Children_of_Dune_(1976)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:52"
    },
    {
      "id": "13ad7e90-daf8-4b2c-be16-0048b406384f",
      "slug": "good-government-never",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/children-of-dune/good-government-never",
      "text": "Good government never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Frank Herbert",
        "slug": "frank-herbert",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Children of Dune",
        "slug": "children-of-dune",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/children-of-dune"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "leadership",
          "slug": "leadership",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/leadership"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dune#Children_of_Dune_(1976)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:52"
    },
    {
      "id": "f1f4f904-64bf-4b9d-9ab4-08ed6328cbd7",
      "slug": "rulers-are-notoriously",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune-messiah/rulers-are-notoriously",
      "text": "“’Rulers are notoriously cynical where religions are concerned. Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?’”",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Frank Herbert",
        "slug": "frank-herbert",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Dune Messiah",
        "slug": "dune-messiah",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune-messiah"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "religion",
          "slug": "religion",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/religion"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dune#Dune_Messiah_(1969)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:51"
    },
    {
      "id": "bea07f5e-43a2-416f-bf24-cf1eadb2bc13",
      "slug": "the-convoluted-wording",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune-messiah/the-convoluted-wording",
      "text": "The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. You have done violence to him, consumed his energy. Elaborate euphemisms may conceal your intent to kill, but behind any use of power over another the ultimate assumption remains: \"I feed on your energy.\"",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Frank Herbert",
        "slug": "frank-herbert",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Dune Messiah",
        "slug": "dune-messiah",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune-messiah"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "law",
          "slug": "law",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/law"
        },
        {
          "name": "violence",
          "slug": "violence",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/violence"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dune#Dune_Messiah_(1969)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:51"
    },
    {
      "id": "bcd279d8-d859-4a80-9fd6-36ee2f092a97",
      "slug": "power-tends-to-isolate",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune-messiah/power-tends-to-isolate",
      "text": "Power tends to isolate those who hold too much of it. Eventually, they lose touch with reality... and fall.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Frank Herbert",
        "slug": "frank-herbert",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Dune Messiah",
        "slug": "dune-messiah",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune-messiah"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dune#Dune_Messiah_(1969)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:51"
    },
    {
      "id": "97786d33-7fae-4875-bd02-2bec24e85f6e",
      "slug": "what-is-justice",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune-messiah/what-is-justice",
      "text": "What is justice? Two forces collide. Each may have the right in his own sphere. And here's where an Emperor commands orderly solutions. Those collisions he cannot prevent — he solves. [How?], in the simplest way: he decides.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Frank Herbert",
        "slug": "frank-herbert",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Dune Messiah",
        "slug": "dune-messiah",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune-messiah"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "justice",
          "slug": "justice",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/justice"
        },
        {
          "name": "choices",
          "slug": "choices",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/choices"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dune#Dune_Messiah_(1969)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:51"
    },
    {
      "id": "7685f020-d1fd-455b-847a-7ee1d1623da3",
      "slug": "there-exists-a-limit",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune-messiah/there-exists-a-limit",
      "text": "There exists a limit to the force even the most powerful may apply without destroying themselves. Judging this limit is the true artistry of government. Misuse of power is the fatal sin. The law cannot be a tool of vengeance, never a hostage, nor a fortification against the martyrs it has created. You cannot threaten any individual and escape the consequences.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Frank Herbert",
        "slug": "frank-herbert",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Dune Messiah",
        "slug": "dune-messiah",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune-messiah"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "law",
          "slug": "law",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/law"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dune#Dune_Messiah_(1969)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:51"
    },
    {
      "id": "0cb628c0-8de8-4aad-b818-919d93ca1d6b",
      "slug": "to-come-under",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune-messiah/to-come-under",
      "text": "“To come under siege was the inevitable fate of power.”",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Frank Herbert",
        "slug": "frank-herbert",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Dune Messiah",
        "slug": "dune-messiah",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune-messiah"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dune#Dune_Messiah_(1969)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:51"
    },
    {
      "id": "7a319233-e9b3-4675-8bd5-5a9ee7f36d6b",
      "slug": "it-has-often",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune/it-has-often",
      "text": "It has often been said that it is better to rule in Hell than serve in Heaven. This is defeatist talk: I intend to rule everywhere, not just in Hell.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Frank Herbert",
        "slug": "frank-herbert",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Dune",
        "slug": "dune",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "ambition",
          "slug": "ambition",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/ambition"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dune#Dune:_The_Battle_of_Corrin_(2004)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:50"
    },
    {
      "id": "cbb84f46-70b3-44fb-b97b-3ac2438a015b",
      "slug": "an-emperors-slightest",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune/an-emperors-slightest",
      "text": "An Emperor's slightest dislike is transmitted to those who serve him, and there it is amplified into rage.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Frank Herbert",
        "slug": "frank-herbert",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Dune",
        "slug": "dune",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "anger",
          "slug": "anger",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/anger"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dune#Dune:_House_Corrino_(2001)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:49"
    },
    {
      "id": "a61c6209-f6c3-4972-8155-77c6ed3b0899",
      "slug": "control-the-coinage",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune/control-the-coinage",
      "text": "\"Control the coinage and the courts — let the rabble have the rest.\" Thus the Padishah Emperor advises you. And he tells you; \"If you want profits, you must rule.\" There is truth in these words, but I ask myself: \"Who are the rabble and who are the ruled?\"",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Frank Herbert",
        "slug": "frank-herbert",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Dune",
        "slug": "dune",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "money",
          "slug": "money",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/money"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dune#Book_3:_The_Prophet",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:49"
    },
    {
      "id": "5071d253-9d0f-46a3-947b-2fad9c98fc63",
      "slug": "the-power-to-destroy",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune/the-power-to-destroy",
      "text": "The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Frank Herbert",
        "slug": "frank-herbert",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Dune",
        "slug": "dune",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dune#Book_3:_The_Prophet",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:49"
    },
    {
      "id": "43dfec2b-0bc2-4a6b-921f-7b6aebdc7ea9",
      "slug": "the-natural-destiny",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune/the-natural-destiny",
      "text": "The natural destiny of power is fragmentation.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Frank Herbert",
        "slug": "frank-herbert",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Dune",
        "slug": "dune",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dune#Dune:_House_Corrino_(2001)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:49"
    },
    {
      "id": "0370d867-41fe-4738-963d-ca07145063f1",
      "slug": "you-cannot-avoid",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune/you-cannot-avoid",
      "text": "You cannot avoid the interplay of politics within an orthodox religion. This power struggle permeates the training, educating and disciplining of the orthodox community. Because of this pressure, the leaders of such a community inevitably must face that ultimate internal question: to succumb to complete opportunism as the price of maintaining their rule, or risk sacrificing themselves for the sake of the orthodox ethic.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Frank Herbert",
        "slug": "frank-herbert",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Dune",
        "slug": "dune",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "religion",
          "slug": "religion",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/religion"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dune#Book_3:_The_Prophet",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:49"
    },
    {
      "id": "ef5fc58c-7c10-4be3-b4ab-2926dfcf703d",
      "slug": "no-more-terrible",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune/no-more-terrible",
      "text": "No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Frank Herbert",
        "slug": "frank-herbert",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Dune",
        "slug": "dune",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "heroism",
          "slug": "heroism",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/heroism"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dune#Book_2:_Muad'Dib",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:48"
    },
    {
      "id": "d85dba28-7c14-4802-a20d-097f87112c60",
      "slug": "a-world-is-supported",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune/a-world-is-supported",
      "text": "A world is supported by four things...the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing... without a ruler who knows the art of ruling. Make that the science of your tradition!",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Frank Herbert",
        "slug": "frank-herbert",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Dune",
        "slug": "dune",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "justice",
          "slug": "justice",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/justice"
        },
        {
          "name": "wisdom",
          "slug": "wisdom",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/wisdom"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dune#Book_1:_Dune",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:48"
    },
    {
      "id": "5bc2fcc9-faee-4068-967e-cab48413134e",
      "slug": "i-must-rule",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune/i-must-rule",
      "text": "I must rule with eye and claw — as the hawk among lesser birds.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Frank Herbert",
        "slug": "frank-herbert",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Dune",
        "slug": "dune",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dune#Book_1:_Dune",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:48"
    },
    {
      "id": "26d44f04-476a-4700-93c1-232a4bdc5a27",
      "slug": "a-popular-man",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune/a-popular-man",
      "text": "A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Frank Herbert",
        "slug": "frank-herbert",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Dune",
        "slug": "dune",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/dune"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "fame",
          "slug": "fame",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fame"
        },
        {
          "name": "jealousy",
          "slug": "jealousy",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/jealousy"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dune#Book_1:_Dune",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:48"
    },
    {
      "id": "b53e1873-a3c3-4afe-a045-2cec5f262ae5",
      "slug": "unfortunately-you-cant",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/noam-chomsky/government-in-the-future/unfortunately-you-cant",
      "text": "Unfortunately, you can't vote the rascals out, because you never voted them in, in the first place. The corporate executives and the corporation lawyers and so on who overwhelmingly staff the executive, assisted increasingly by a university based mandarin class, remain in power no matter whom you elect.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Noam Chomsky",
        "slug": "noam-chomsky",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/noam-chomsky"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Government in the Future",
        "slug": "government-in-the-future",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/noam-chomsky/government-in-the-future"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 140,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        },
        {
          "name": "democracy",
          "slug": "democracy",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/democracy"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky#Government_in_the_Future_(1970)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:45"
    },
    {
      "id": "b28a65f9-9582-4de4-aee9-9f6d34a5a580",
      "slug": "roughly-speaking-i-think",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/noam-chomsky/government-in-the-future/roughly-speaking-i-think",
      "text": "Roughly speaking, I think it's accurate to say that a corporate elite of managers and owners governs the economy and the political system as well, at least in very large measure. The people, so-called, do exercise an occasional choice among those who Marx once called \"the rival factions and adventurers of the ruling class.\"",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Noam Chomsky",
        "slug": "noam-chomsky",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/noam-chomsky"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Government in the Future",
        "slug": "government-in-the-future",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/noam-chomsky/government-in-the-future"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 146,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky#Government_in_the_Future_(1970)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:45"
    },
    {
      "id": "0c10b378-f2d5-46f1-af0c-8e5cd986dcea",
      "slug": "the-cold-war",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/noam-chomsky/government-in-the-future/the-cold-war",
      "text": "The Cold War ideology and the international communist conspiracy function in an important way as essentially a propaganda device to mobilize support at a particular historical moment for this long-time imperial enterprise. In fact, I believe that this is probably the main function of the Cold War: it serves as a useful device for the managers of American society and their counterparts in the Soviet Union to control their own populations and their own respective imperial systems.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Noam Chomsky",
        "slug": "noam-chomsky",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/noam-chomsky"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Government in the Future",
        "slug": "government-in-the-future",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/noam-chomsky/government-in-the-future"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 143,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "propaganda",
          "slug": "propaganda",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/propaganda"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky#Government_in_the_Future_(1970)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:45"
    },
    {
      "id": "fc908d6f-ae25-4363-9f01-3109a6042ec7",
      "slug": "this-it-is-that",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/herman-melville/moby-dick/this-it-is-that",
      "text": "This it is, that for ever keeps God's true princes of the Empire from the world's hustings; and leaves the highest honors that this air can give, to those men who become famous more through their infinite inferiority to the choice hidden handful of the Divine Inert, than through their undoubted superiority over the dead level of the mass. Such large virtue lurks in these small things when extreme political superstitions invest them, that in some royal instances even to idiot imbecility they have imparted potency.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Herman Melville",
        "slug": "herman-melville",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/herman-melville"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Moby-Dick",
        "slug": "moby-dick",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/herman-melville/moby-dick"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 162,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Moby-Dick#The_Specksynder_(33)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:40"
    },
    {
      "id": "d75aaafe-f245-49af-a46f-4fdb37c9ff7a",
      "slug": "every-central-government",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexis-de-tocqueville/democracy-in-america/every-central-government",
      "text": "Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Alexis de Tocqueville",
        "slug": "alexis-de-tocqueville",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexis-de-tocqueville"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Democracy in America",
        "slug": "democracy-in-america",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexis-de-tocqueville/democracy-in-america"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "the state",
          "slug": "the-state",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-state"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville#Democracy_in_America,_Volume_II_(1840)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:39"
    },
    {
      "id": "f2cc2e7d-5617-4e26-8906-77e6c2437e29",
      "slug": "the-pursuit-of-wealth",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexis-de-tocqueville/democracy-in-america/the-pursuit-of-wealth",
      "text": "The pursuit of wealth generally diverts men of great talents and strong passions from the pursuit of power; and it frequently happens that a man does not undertake to direct the fortunes of the state until he has shown himself incompetent to conduct his own.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Alexis de Tocqueville",
        "slug": "alexis-de-tocqueville",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexis-de-tocqueville"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Democracy in America",
        "slug": "democracy-in-america",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexis-de-tocqueville/democracy-in-america"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        },
        {
          "name": "wealth",
          "slug": "wealth",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/wealth"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville#Democracy_in_America,_Volume_I_(1835)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:37"
    },
    {
      "id": "be68bd4d-6234-4c63-a2eb-6f83706a2f92",
      "slug": "with-much-care",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexis-de-tocqueville/democracy-in-america/with-much-care",
      "text": "With much care and skill power has been broken into fragments in the American township, so that the maximum possible number of people have some concern with public affairs.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Alexis de Tocqueville",
        "slug": "alexis-de-tocqueville",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexis-de-tocqueville"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Democracy in America",
        "slug": "democracy-in-america",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexis-de-tocqueville/democracy-in-america"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "democracy",
          "slug": "democracy",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/democracy"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville#Democracy_in_America,_Volume_I_(1835)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:37"
    },
    {
      "id": "964dc5b5-9fdf-42bf-8af7-ec5e845d46c4",
      "slug": "furthermore-when-citizens",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexis-de-tocqueville/democracy-in-america/furthermore-when-citizens",
      "text": "Furthermore, when citizens are all almost equal, it becomes difficult for them to defend their independence against the aggressions of power.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Alexis de Tocqueville",
        "slug": "alexis-de-tocqueville",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexis-de-tocqueville"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Democracy in America",
        "slug": "democracy-in-america",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexis-de-tocqueville/democracy-in-america"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "equality",
          "slug": "equality",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/equality"
        },
        {
          "name": "independence",
          "slug": "independence",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/independence"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville#Democracy_in_America,_Volume_I_(1835)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:37"
    },
    {
      "id": "93b7c459-07d2-4c69-812f-a92f7721dd1f",
      "slug": "now-saurons-lust",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jrr-tolkien/the-silmarillion/now-saurons-lust",
      "text": "Now Sauron's lust and pride increased, until he knew no bounds, and he determined to make himself master of all things in Middle-earth, and to destroy the Elves, and to compass, if he might, the downfall of Númenor. He brooked no freedom nor any rivalry, and he named himself Lord of the Earth. A mask he still could wear so that if he wished he might deceive the eyes of Men, seeming to them wise and fair. But he ruled rather by force and fear, if they might avail; and those who perceived his shadow spreading over the world called him the Dark Lord and named him the Enemy.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "J.R.R. Tolkien",
        "slug": "jrr-tolkien",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jrr-tolkien"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Silmarillion",
        "slug": "the-silmarillion",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jrr-tolkien/the-silmarillion"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "pride",
          "slug": "pride",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/pride"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Silmarillion#Of_the_Rings_of_Power_and_the_Third_Age",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:36"
    },
    {
      "id": "6d26e702-eb48-4844-9a9f-1dc6bbfc721d",
      "slug": "those-who-used",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jrr-tolkien/the-silmarillion/those-who-used",
      "text": "Those who used the Nine Rings became mighty in their day, kings, sorcerers, and warriors of old. They obtained glory and great wealth, yet it turned to their undoing. They had, as it seemed, unending life, yet life became unendurable to them. They could walk, if they would, unseen by all eyes in this world beneath the sun, and they could see things in worlds invisible to mortal men; but too often they beheld only the phantoms and delusions of Sauron. And one by one, sooner or later, according to their native strength and to the good or evil of their wills in the beginning, they fell under the thraldom of the ring that they bore and under the domination of the One, which was Sauron's.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "J.R.R. Tolkien",
        "slug": "jrr-tolkien",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jrr-tolkien"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Silmarillion",
        "slug": "the-silmarillion",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jrr-tolkien/the-silmarillion"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "immortality",
          "slug": "immortality",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/immortality"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Silmarillion#Of_the_Rings_of_Power_and_the_Third_Age",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:36"
    },
    {
      "id": "f13e7b0d-3aa8-43a5-a524-9d961511ccc5",
      "slug": "now-he-began",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-m-pirsig/zen-and-the-art-of-motorcycle-maintenance/now-he-began",
      "text": "Now he began to see for the first time the unbelievable magnitude of what man, when he gained power to understand and rule the world in terms of dialectic truths, had lost. He had built empires of scientific capability to manipulate the phenomena of nature into enormous manifestations of his own dreams of power and wealth—but for this he had exchanged an empire of understanding of equal magnitude: an understanding of what it is to be a part of the world, and not an enemy of it.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Robert M. Pirsig",
        "slug": "robert-m-pirsig",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-m-pirsig"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance",
        "slug": "zen-and-the-art-of-motorcycle-maintenance",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-m-pirsig/zen-and-the-art-of-motorcycle-maintenance"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "science",
          "slug": "science",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/science"
        },
        {
          "name": "nature",
          "slug": "nature",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/nature"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_M._Pirsig#Zen_and_the_Art_of_Motorcycle_Maintenance_(1974)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:33"
    },
    {
      "id": "9dc942db-027b-4cad-b954-143a2ddc19e9",
      "slug": "there-is-no-question",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-sagan/the-varieties-of-scientific-experience/there-is-no-question",
      "text": "There is no question that religions have historically played the role of making people contented with their lot. ...such a doctrine would be very appealing to the ruling classes of a society. ...Many societies, for this reason alone, encourage the contentment with your lot that the religious premise of heaven affords.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Carl Sagan",
        "slug": "carl-sagan",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-sagan"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Varieties of Scientific Experience",
        "slug": "the-varieties-of-scientific-experience",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-sagan/the-varieties-of-scientific-experience"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "religion",
          "slug": "religion",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/religion"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan#The_Varieties_of_Scientific_Experience:_A_Personal_View_of_the_Search_for_God_(2006)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:30"
    },
    {
      "id": "d43a1161-0471-4184-8387-d0ed291b5489",
      "slug": "projected-upon-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-sagan/the-varieties-of-scientific-experience/projected-upon-the",
      "text": "Projected upon the natural world... is the idea of privilege. ...Ever since the invention of civilization, there have been privileged classes... some groups that oppress others and that work to maintain these hierarchies of power. The children of the privileged grow up expecting that, through no particular effort of their own, they will retain a privileged position.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Carl Sagan",
        "slug": "carl-sagan",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-sagan"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Varieties of Scientific Experience",
        "slug": "the-varieties-of-scientific-experience",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-sagan/the-varieties-of-scientific-experience"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "social inequality",
          "slug": "social-inequality",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/social-inequality"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan#The_Varieties_of_Scientific_Experience:_A_Personal_View_of_the_Search_for_God_(2006)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:29"
    },
    {
      "id": "212eb744-e88a-4ee1-bbc9-17728de385e9",
      "slug": "this-planet-is-run",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-sagan/contact/this-planet-is-run",
      "text": "This planet is run by crazy people. Remember what they have to do to get where they are. Their perspective is so narrow, so...brief. A few years. In the best of them a few decades. They care only about the time they are in power.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Carl Sagan",
        "slug": "carl-sagan",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-sagan"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Contact",
        "slug": "contact",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/carl-sagan/contact"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 403,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan#Contact_(1985)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:28"
    },
    {
      "id": "cd587b75-40fa-4454-981d-8a13689f66ea",
      "slug": "did-not-gandalf",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jrr-tolkien/the-fellowship-of-the-ring/did-not-gandalf",
      "text": "Did not Gandalf tell you that the rings give power according to the measure of each possessor? Before you could use that power you would need to become far stronger, and to train your will to the domination of others.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "J.R.R. Tolkien",
        "slug": "jrr-tolkien",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jrr-tolkien"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Fellowship of the Ring",
        "slug": "the-fellowship-of-the-ring",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jrr-tolkien/the-fellowship-of-the-ring"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Fellowship_of_the_Ring#The_Mirror_of_Galadriel",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:21"
    },
    {
      "id": "c669a13d-e374-4600-b30c-d597aaa924ef",
      "slug": "we-cannot-use",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jrr-tolkien/the-fellowship-of-the-ring/we-cannot-use",
      "text": "We cannot use the Ruling Ring. That we now know too well. It belongs to Sauron and was made by him alone, and is altogether evil. Its strength, Boromir, is too great for anyone to wield at will, save only those who have already a great power of their own. But for them it holds an even deadlier peril. The very desire of it corrupts the heart.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "J.R.R. Tolkien",
        "slug": "jrr-tolkien",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jrr-tolkien"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Fellowship of the Ring",
        "slug": "the-fellowship-of-the-ring",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jrr-tolkien/the-fellowship-of-the-ring"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "evil",
          "slug": "evil",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/evil"
        },
        {
          "name": "temptation",
          "slug": "temptation",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/temptation"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Fellowship_of_the_Ring#The_Council_of_Elrond",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:21"
    },
    {
      "id": "970e6175-7941-477c-bf61-e3d63303ee03",
      "slug": "if-any-of-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jrr-tolkien/the-fellowship-of-the-ring/if-any-of-the",
      "text": "If any of the Wise should with this Ring overthrow the Lord of Mordor, using his own arts, he would then set himself on Sauron's throne, and yet another Dark Lord would appear. And that is another reason why the Ring should be destroyed: as long as it is in the world it will be a danger even to the Wise. For nothing is evil in the beginning. Even Sauron was not so. I fear to take the Ring to hide it. I will not take the Ring to wield it.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "J.R.R. Tolkien",
        "slug": "jrr-tolkien",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jrr-tolkien"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Fellowship of the Ring",
        "slug": "the-fellowship-of-the-ring",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jrr-tolkien/the-fellowship-of-the-ring"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "evil",
          "slug": "evil",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/evil"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Fellowship_of_the_Ring#The_Council_of_Elrond",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:21"
    },
    {
      "id": "77f74321-367b-4f8f-9a43-89b056f8f302",
      "slug": "let-folly-be-our",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jrr-tolkien/the-fellowship-of-the-ring/let-folly-be-our",
      "text": "Let folly be our cloak, a veil before the eyes of the Enemy! For he is very wise, and weighs all things to a nicety in the scales of his malice. But the only measure that he knows is desire, desire for power; and so he judges all hearts. Into his heart the thought will not enter that any will refuse it, that having the Ring we may seek to destroy it. If we seek this, we shall put him out of reckoning.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "J.R.R. Tolkien",
        "slug": "jrr-tolkien",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jrr-tolkien"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Fellowship of the Ring",
        "slug": "the-fellowship-of-the-ring",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jrr-tolkien/the-fellowship-of-the-ring"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "desire",
          "slug": "desire",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/desire"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Fellowship_of_the_Ring#The_Council_of_Elrond",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:21"
    },
    {
      "id": "0c49d18f-7f08-492f-81c9-78bd886654bb",
      "slug": "in-nothing-is-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jrr-tolkien/the-fellowship-of-the-ring/in-nothing-is-the",
      "text": "In nothing is the power of the Dark Lord more clearly shown than in the estrangement that divides all those who still oppose him.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "J.R.R. Tolkien",
        "slug": "jrr-tolkien",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jrr-tolkien"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Fellowship of the Ring",
        "slug": "the-fellowship-of-the-ring",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jrr-tolkien/the-fellowship-of-the-ring"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "evil",
          "slug": "evil",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/evil"
        },
        {
          "name": "arguments",
          "slug": "arguments",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/arguments"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Fellowship_of_the_Ring#Lothl%C3%B3rien",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:21"
    },
    {
      "id": "05f096bb-c98e-45c8-90c0-7e18985b76f6",
      "slug": "i-do-not",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jrr-tolkien/the-fellowship-of-the-ring/i-do-not",
      "text": "I do not deny that my heart has greatly desired to ask what you offer. For many long years I had pondered what I might do, should the Great Ring come into my hands, and behold! it was brought within my grasp. The evil that was devised long ago works on in many ways, whether Sauron himself stands or falls. Would not that have been a noble deed to set to the credit of his Ring, if I had taken it by force or fear from my guest?\n\n'And now at last it comes. You will give me the Ring freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair!'\n\nShe lifted up her hand and from the ring that she wore there issued a great light that illumined her alone and left all else dark. She stood before Frodo seeming now tall beyond measurement, and beautiful beyond enduring, terrible and worshipful. Then she let her hand fall, and the light faded, and suddenly she laughed again, and lo! she was shrunken: a slender elf-woman, clad in simple white, whose gentle voice was soft and sad.\n\n'I pass the test,' she said. 'I will diminish, and go into the West, and remain Galadriel.'",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "J.R.R. Tolkien",
        "slug": "jrr-tolkien",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jrr-tolkien"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Fellowship of the Ring",
        "slug": "the-fellowship-of-the-ring",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jrr-tolkien/the-fellowship-of-the-ring"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "temptation",
          "slug": "temptation",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/temptation"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Fellowship_of_the_Ring#The_Mirror_of_Galadriel",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:21"
    },
    {
      "id": "d2474c7f-5509-47e2-af1c-d389836dd121",
      "slug": "you-are-wise",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jrr-tolkien/the-fellowship-of-the-ring/you-are-wise",
      "text": "'You are wise and powerful. Will you not take the Ring?’\n\n'No!' cried Gandalf, springing to his feet. 'With that power I should have power too great and terrible. And over me the Ring would gain a power still greater and more deadly.' His eyes flashed and his face was lit as by a fire within. 'Do not tempt me! For I do not wish to become like the Dark Lord himself. Yet the way of the Ring to my heart is by pity, pity for weakness and the desire of strength to do good. Do not tempt me! I dare not take it, not even to keep it safe, unused. The wish to wield it would be too great for my strength. I shall have such need of it. Great perils lie before me.'",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "J.R.R. Tolkien",
        "slug": "jrr-tolkien",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jrr-tolkien"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Fellowship of the Ring",
        "slug": "the-fellowship-of-the-ring",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jrr-tolkien/the-fellowship-of-the-ring"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "temptation",
          "slug": "temptation",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/temptation"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Fellowship_of_the_Ring#The_Shadow_of_the_Past",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:20"
    },
    {
      "id": "81f7dec0-cdfb-430e-ab3f-d908bf15943c",
      "slug": "sooner-or-later",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jrr-tolkien/the-fellowship-of-the-ring/sooner-or-later",
      "text": "'Sooner or later, if he is strong or well-meaning to begin with, but neither strength nor good purpose will last. Sooner or later the Dark Power will devour him.'",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "J.R.R. Tolkien",
        "slug": "jrr-tolkien",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jrr-tolkien"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Fellowship of the Ring",
        "slug": "the-fellowship-of-the-ring",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jrr-tolkien/the-fellowship-of-the-ring"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "evil",
          "slug": "evil",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/evil"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Fellowship_of_the_Ring#The_Shadow_of_the_Past",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:20"
    },
    {
      "id": "3379a1cc-534a-4070-a598-d2bd0fd13774",
      "slug": "you-say-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jrr-tolkien/the-fellowship-of-the-ring/you-say-the",
      "text": "'You say the ring is dangerous, far more dangerous than I guess. In what way?'\n\n'In many ways,' answered the wizard. 'It is far more powerful than I ever dared to think at first, so powerful that in the end it would utterly overcome anyone of mortal race who possessed it. It would possess him.'",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "J.R.R. Tolkien",
        "slug": "jrr-tolkien",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jrr-tolkien"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Fellowship of the Ring",
        "slug": "the-fellowship-of-the-ring",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jrr-tolkien/the-fellowship-of-the-ring"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Fellowship_of_the_Ring#The_Shadow_of_the_Past",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:20"
    },
    {
      "id": "87f314aa-66b5-4bf8-bd8f-87013dde1cbf",
      "slug": "even-the-better",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/smoke-and-mirrors/even-the-better",
      "text": "Even the better protected files corrupt,\n\nand the best protected corrupt absolutely.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Neil Gaiman",
        "slug": "neil-gaiman",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Smoke and Mirrors",
        "slug": "smoke-and-mirrors",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/smoke-and-mirrors"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 239,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "humor",
          "slug": "humor",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor"
        },
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Neil_Gaiman#Smoke_and_Mirrors_(1998)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:07"
    },
    {
      "id": "25112864-6cdf-459b-be8f-498a3f5b5983",
      "slug": "ill-can-he-rule",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmund-spenser/the-faerie-queene/ill-can-he-rule",
      "text": "Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Edmund Spenser",
        "slug": "edmund-spenser",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmund-spenser"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Faerie Queene",
        "slug": "the-faerie-queene",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmund-spenser/the-faerie-queene"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edmund_Spenser#Book_V",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:57"
    },
    {
      "id": "dc66a62e-cdad-409f-bef5-38c260460d5d",
      "slug": "how-is-it-i-wonder",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-butler/the-way-of-all-flesh/how-is-it-i-wonder",
      "text": "How is it, I wonder, that all religious officials, from God the Father to the parish beadle, should be so arbitrary and exacting.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Samuel Butler",
        "slug": "samuel-butler",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-butler"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Way of All Flesh",
        "slug": "the-way-of-all-flesh",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-butler/the-way-of-all-flesh"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "religion",
          "slug": "religion",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/religion"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Samuel_Butler_(novelist)#The_Way_of_All_Flesh_(1903)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:54"
    },
    {
      "id": "146eb97e-66ec-4a31-8c34-d10f575f3378",
      "slug": "as-a-matter",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-butler/erewhon/as-a-matter",
      "text": "As a matter of course, the basis on which he decided that duty could alone rest was one that afforded no standing-room for many of the old-established habits of the people. These, he assured them, were all wrong, and whenever any one ventured to differ from him, he referred the matter to the unseen power with which he alone was in direct communication, and the unseen power invariably assured him that he was right.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Samuel Butler",
        "slug": "samuel-butler",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-butler"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Erewhon",
        "slug": "erewhon",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-butler/erewhon"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "religion",
          "slug": "religion",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/religion"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Samuel_Butler_(novelist)#Erewhon_(1872)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:53"
    },
    {
      "id": "ce96001b-daad-4960-9b8c-edc7a152f183",
      "slug": "if-a-man",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-eliot/the-mill-on-the-floss/if-a-man",
      "text": "If a man means to be hard, let him keep in his saddle and speak from that height, above the level of pleading eyes, and with the command of a distant horizon.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Eliot",
        "slug": "george-eliot",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-eliot"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Mill on the Floss",
        "slug": "the-mill-on-the-floss",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-eliot/the-mill-on-the-floss"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Eliot#The_Mill_on_the_Floss_(1860)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:50"
    },
    {
      "id": "b8fb0f6b-9f39-4baf-b81f-17e5da16feea",
      "slug": "truths-begin-by-a-conflict",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/emil-cioran/a-short-history-of-decay/truths-begin-by-a-conflict",
      "text": "Truths begin by a conflict with the police — and end by calling them in.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Emil Cioran",
        "slug": "emil-cioran",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/emil-cioran"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Short History of Decay",
        "slug": "a-short-history-of-decay",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/emil-cioran/a-short-history-of-decay"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "truth",
          "slug": "truth",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/truth"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emil_Cioran#A_Short_History_of_Decay_(1949)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:40"
    },
    {
      "id": "cc9912f5-4500-4408-a97f-793d22f5d59e",
      "slug": "far-from-diminishing",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/emil-cioran/a-short-history-of-decay/far-from-diminishing",
      "text": "Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it; hence the mind feels more comfortable in the society of a braggart than in that of a martyr; and nothing is more repugnant to it than the spectacle of dying for an idea.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Emil Cioran",
        "slug": "emil-cioran",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/emil-cioran"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Short History of Decay",
        "slug": "a-short-history-of-decay",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/emil-cioran/a-short-history-of-decay"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "suffering",
          "slug": "suffering",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/suffering"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emil_Cioran#A_Short_History_of_Decay_(1949)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:39"
    },
    {
      "id": "0549ccff-3ae8-4b1d-a462-8b94e3e4c326",
      "slug": "what-man-has",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education/what-man-has",
      "text": "What man has made, man may destroy. Nature's characters alone are ineffaceable, and nature makes neither the prince, the rich man, nor the nobleman. This satrap whom you have educated for greatness, what will become of him in his degradation? This farmer of the taxes who can only live on gold, what will he do in poverty? This haughty fool who cannot use his own hands, who prides himself on what is not really his, what will he do when he is stripped of all? In that day, happy will he be who can give up the rank which is no longer his, and be still a man in Fate's despite. Let men praise as they will that conquered monarch who like a madman would be buried beneath the fragments of his throne; I behold him with scorn; to me he is merely a crown, and when that is gone he is nothing. But he who loses his crown and lives without it, is more than a king; from the rank of a king, which may be held by a coward, a villain, or madman, he rises to the rank of a man, a position few can fill. Thus he triumphs over Fortune, he dares to look her in the face; he depends on himself alone, and when he has nothing left to show but himself he is not a nonentity, he is somebody.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Jean Jacques Rousseau",
        "slug": "jean-jacques-rousseau",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Emile; or On Education",
        "slug": "emile-or-on-education",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "human nature",
          "slug": "human-nature",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/human-nature"
        },
        {
          "name": "dignity",
          "slug": "dignity",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dignity"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emile,_or_On_Education#Book_III",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:33"
    },
    {
      "id": "9a70be80-df36-4285-9134-20249dc65965",
      "slug": "but-our-don",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/miguel-de-unamuno/tragic-sense-of-life/but-our-don",
      "text": "But our Don Quixote, the inward, the immortal Don Quixote, conscious of his own comicness, does not believe that his doctrines will triumph in this world, because they are not of it. And it is better that they should not triumph. And if the world wished to make Don Quixote king, he would retire alone to the mountain, fleeing from the king-making crowds, as Christ retired alone to the mountain when, after the miracle of the loaves and fishes, they sought to proclaim him king. He left the title of king for the inscription written over the cross.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Miguel de Unamuno",
        "slug": "miguel-de-unamuno",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/miguel-de-unamuno"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Tragic Sense of Life",
        "slug": "tragic-sense-of-life",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/miguel-de-unamuno/tragic-sense-of-life"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "idealism",
          "slug": "idealism",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/idealism"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Unamuno#Conclusion_:_Don_Quixote_in_the_Contemporary_European_Tragi-Comedy",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:24"
    },
    {
      "id": "02040407-4b96-4ae2-b415-3f50b1e40fe7",
      "slug": "the-end-of-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/niccolo-machiavelli/discourses-on-livy/the-end-of-the",
      "text": "The end of the republic is to enervate and to weaken all other bodies so as to increase its own body.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Niccolo Machiavelli",
        "slug": "niccolo-machiavelli",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/niccolo-machiavelli"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Discourses on Livy",
        "slug": "discourses-on-livy",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/niccolo-machiavelli/discourses-on-livy"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "the state",
          "slug": "the-state",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-state"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_Machiavelli#Discourses_on_Livy_(1517)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:24"
    },
    {
      "id": "fc010616-7bf9-4c25-a11e-09ae31a6c8d0",
      "slug": "we-know-that",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/we-know-that",
      "text": "We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "tyranny",
          "slug": "tyranny",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/tyranny"
        },
        {
          "name": "revolution",
          "slug": "revolution",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_3",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:15"
    },
    {
      "id": "e4865ae4-5333-4b58-a991-73e75215ed77",
      "slug": "there-will-be-no-curiosity",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/there-will-be-no-curiosity",
      "text": "There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always — do not forget this, Winston — always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "the future",
          "slug": "the-future",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-future"
        },
        {
          "name": "totalitarianism",
          "slug": "totalitarianism",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/totalitarianism"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_3",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:15"
    },
    {
      "id": "bf9fda3d-56fc-40fd-a999-8edd8167119d",
      "slug": "the-real-power",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/the-real-power",
      "text": "\"The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men.\" [O'Brien] paused, and for a moment assumed again his air of a schoolmaster questioning a promising pupil: \"How does one man assert his power over another, Winston?\"\n\nWinston thought. \"By making him suffer,\" he said.\n\n\"Exactly. By making him suffer. Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own? Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation. Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.\"",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "suffering",
          "slug": "suffering",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/suffering"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_3",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:15"
    },
    {
      "id": "b449ebe9-7a15-42b4-b5d0-aa2debbd9a23",
      "slug": "we-are-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/we-are-the",
      "text": "We are the priests of power. God is power. But at present power is only a word so far as you are concerned. It is time for you to gather some idea of what power means. The first thing you must realize is that power is collective. The individual only has power in so far as he ceases to be an individual. You know the Party slogan: \"Freedom is Slavery\". Has it ever occurred to you that it is reversible? Slavery is freedom. Alone — free — the human being is always defeated. It must be so, because every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures. But if he can make complete, utter submission, if he can escape from his identity, if he can merge himself in the Party so that he is the Party, then he is all-powerful and immortal.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "freedom",
          "slug": "freedom",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom"
        },
        {
          "name": "totalitarianism",
          "slug": "totalitarianism",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/totalitarianism"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_3",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:15"
    },
    {
      "id": "99758dd6-5345-4629-b019-8ebda408462a",
      "slug": "do-not-imagine",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/do-not-imagine",
      "text": "Do not imagine that you will save yourself, Winston, however completely you surrender to us. No one who has once gone astray is ever spared. And even if we chose to let you live out the natural term of your life, still you would never escape from us. What happens to you here is for ever. Understand that in advance. We shall crush you down to the point from which there is no coming back. Things will happen to you from which you could not recover, if you lived a thousand years. Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity. You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty and then we shall fill you with ourselves.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "suffering",
          "slug": "suffering",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/suffering"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_2",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:15"
    },
    {
      "id": "868cc1da-3b6e-4a95-a988-14231c2f2ed8",
      "slug": "if-human-equality",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/if-human-equality",
      "text": "If human equality is to be forever averted — if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently — then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.''",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "society",
          "slug": "society",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/society"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_9",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:15"
    },
    {
      "id": "7d7ab398-ec14-4ef6-a021-96a64d4ea31d",
      "slug": "we-control-matter",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/we-control-matter",
      "text": "We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull. You will learn by degrees, Winston. There is nothing that we could not do. Invisibility, levitation — anything. I could float off this floor like a soap bubble if I wish to. I do not wish to, because the Party does not wish it. You must get rid of those nineteenth-century ideas about the laws of Nature. We make the laws of Nature.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "truth",
          "slug": "truth",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/truth"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_3",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:15"
    },
    {
      "id": "659e8a40-3c52-4730-a2f5-b2f3db389db2",
      "slug": "tell-me-winston",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/tell-me-winston",
      "text": "'Tell me, Winston - and remember, no lies: you know that I am always able to detect a lie - tell me, what are your true feelings towards Big Brother?'\n\n'I hate him.'\n\n'You hate him. Good. Then the time has come for you to take the last step. You must love Big Brother. It is not enough to obey him: you must love him.'",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_4",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:15"
    },
    {
      "id": "5e67910f-8d4b-422c-b041-a99521119df4",
      "slug": "do-you-begin",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/do-you-begin",
      "text": "Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but MORE merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress towards more pain. The old civilizations claimed that they were founded on love or justice. Ours is founded upon hatred. In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph, and self-abasement. Everything else we shall destroy — everything.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "hatred",
          "slug": "hatred",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hatred"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_3",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:15"
    },
    {
      "id": "4a427ca6-e2c0-407b-9163-6b68b1f9037e",
      "slug": "all-the-confessions",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/all-the-confessions",
      "text": "All the confessions that are uttered here are true. We make them true. And above all we do not allow the dead to rise up against us. You must stop imagining that posterity will vindicate you, Winston. Posterity will never hear of you. You will be lifted clean out from the stream of history. We shall turn you into gas and pour you into the stratosphere. Nothing will remain of you, not a name in a register, not a memory in a living brain. You will be annihilated in the past as well as in the future. You will never have existed.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "history",
          "slug": "history",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/history"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_2",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:15"
    },
    {
      "id": "4565ce47-9788-4586-a3ee-66295e2b99e3",
      "slug": "he-knew-in-advance",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/he-knew-in-advance",
      "text": "He knew in advance what O'Brien would say. That the Party did not seek power for its own ends, but only for the good of the majority. That it sought power because men in the mass were frail cowardly creatures who could not endure liberty or face the truth, and must be ruled over and systematically deceived by others who were stronger than themselves. That the choice for mankind lay between freedom and happiness, and that, for the great bulk of mankind, happiness was better. That the party was the eternal guardian of the weak, a dedicated sect doing evil that good might come, sacrificing its own happiness to that of others. The terrible thing, thought Winston, the terrible thing was that when O'Brien said this he would believe it. [...] What can you do, thought Winston, against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing, and then simply persists in his lunacy?\n\n\"You are ruling over us for our own good,\" he said feebly. \"You believe that human beings are not fit to govern themselves, and therefore —\"\n\nHe started and almost cried out. A pang of pain had shot through his body. O'Brien had pushed the lever of the dial up to thirty-five.\n\n\"That was stupid, Winston, stupid!\" he said. \"You should know better than to say a thing like that.\"",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "freedom",
          "slug": "freedom",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_3",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:15"
    },
    {
      "id": "33fa1756-6db2-419b-9303-44d47674a5f1",
      "slug": "you-are-here",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/you-are-here",
      "text": "You are here because you have failed in humility, in self-discipline. You would not make the act of submission which is the price of sanity. You preferred to be a lunatic, a minority of one. Only the disciplined mind can see reality, Winston. You believe that reality is something objective, external, existing in its own right. You also believe that the nature of reality is self-evident. When you delude yourself into thinking that you see something, you assume that everyone else sees the same thing as you. But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Party, which is collective and immortal. Whatever the Party holds to be the truth, is truth. It is impossible to see reality except by looking through the eyes of the Party. That is the fact that you have got to relearn, Winston. It needs an act of self-destruction, an effort of the will. You must humble yourself before you can become sane.’",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "truth",
          "slug": "truth",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/truth"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_2",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:15"
    },
    {
      "id": "31f58808-1adf-4b02-96cc-6366c9afbafc",
      "slug": "tell-me-he-said",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/tell-me-he-said",
      "text": "‘Tell me,’ he said, ‘how soon will they shoot me?’\n\n‘It might be a long time,’ said O'Brien. ‘You are a difficult case. But don’t give up hope. Everyone is cured sooner or later. In the end we shall shoot you.’",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_3",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:15"
    },
    {
      "id": "2e1ec504-1678-4911-96f1-1a5e15d4ac52",
      "slug": "we-control-life",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/we-control-life",
      "text": "We control life, Winston, at all its levels. You are imagining that there is something called human nature which will be outraged by what we do and will turn against us. But we create human nature. Men are infinitely malleable. Or perhaps you have returned to your old idea that the proletarians or the slaves will arise and overthrow us. Put it out of your mind. They are helpless, like the animals. Humanity is the Party. The others are outside — irrelevant.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "human nature",
          "slug": "human-nature",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/human-nature"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_3",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:15"
    },
    {
      "id": "2da68fea-2036-45fe-977f-2e901d1f9f10",
      "slug": "even-the-names",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/even-the-names",
      "text": "''Even the names of the four Ministries by which we are governed exhibit a sort of impudence in their deliberate reversal of the facts. The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from ordinary hypocrisy; they are deliberate exercises in DOUBLETHINK. For it is only by reconciling contradictions that power can be retained indefinitely. In no other way could the ancient cycle be broken.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "lies",
          "slug": "lies",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/lies"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_9",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:15"
    },
    {
      "id": "22cd9930-c8b5-4403-8291-553f3d411562",
      "slug": "he-gazed-up-at-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/he-gazed-up-at-the",
      "text": "He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_6",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:15"
    },
    {
      "id": "07e5f02c-f1bc-4cfe-a643-806dba08c53e",
      "slug": "when-finally-you",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/when-finally-you",
      "text": "When finally you surrender to us, it must be of your own free will. We do not destroy the heretic because he resists us: so long as he resists us we never destroy him. We convert him, we capture his inner mind, we reshape him. We burn all evil and all illusion out of him; we bring him over to our side, not in appearance, but genuinely, heart and soul. We make him one of ourselves before we kill him. It is intolerable to us that an erroneous thought should exist anywhere in the world, however secret and powerless it may be. Even in the instant of death we cannot permit any deviation. In the old days the heretic walked to the stake still a heretic, proclaiming his heresy, exulting in it. Even the victim of the Russian purges could carry rebellion locked up in his skull as he walked down the passage waiting for the bullet. But we make the brain perfect before we blow it out.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_2",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:15"
    },
    {
      "id": "fa4caec1-7258-4a64-931a-b869a9ef73e4",
      "slug": "all-rulers-in-all",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/all-rulers-in-all",
      "text": "All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "lies",
          "slug": "lies",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/lies"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_9",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:14"
    },
    {
      "id": "eb33301d-6c3e-41e8-8126-5ee824de0fba",
      "slug": "the-war-is-waged",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/the-war-is-waged",
      "text": "The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact. The very word \"war\", therefore, has become misleading. It would probably be accurate to say that by becoming continuous war has ceased to exist.''",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "war",
          "slug": "war",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_9",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:14"
    },
    {
      "id": "e939f795-0e98-4683-92d2-ae9b228314fc",
      "slug": "the-two-aims",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/the-two-aims",
      "text": "The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of independent thought.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_9",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:14"
    },
    {
      "id": "d9ed2209-7983-4743-985c-138474cbfab3",
      "slug": "part-of-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/part-of-the",
      "text": "Part of the reason for this was that in the past no government had the power to keep its citizens under constant surveillance. The invention of print, however, made it easier to manipulate public opinion, and the film and the radio carried the process further. With the development of television, and the technical advance which made it possible to receive and transmit simultaneously on the same instrument, private life came to an end.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "freedom",
          "slug": "freedom",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_9",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:14"
    },
    {
      "id": "d802922e-254c-4a7b-98a0-7522f5f56f4f",
      "slug": "the-young-strong",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/the-young-strong",
      "text": "The young, strong body, now helpless in sleep, awoke in him a pitying, protecting feeling. But the mindless tenderness that he had felt under the hazel tree, while the thrush was singing, had not quite come back. He pulled the overalls aside and studied her smooth white flank. In the old days, he thought, a man looked at a girl's body and saw that it was desirable, and that was the end of the story. But you could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred. Their embrace had been a battle, the climax a victory. It was a blow struck against the Party. It was a political act.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "passion",
          "slug": "passion",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/passion"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_2",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:14"
    },
    {
      "id": "d05766bb-d255-4248-8a97-74862ad26cd9",
      "slug": "by-comparison-with",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/by-comparison-with",
      "text": "By comparison with that existing today, all the tyrannies of the past were half-hearted and inefficient. The ruling groups were always infected to some extent by liberal ideas, and were content to leave loose ends everywhere, to regard only the overt act and to be uninterested in what their subjects were thinking. Even the Catholic Church of the Middle Ages was tolerant by modern standards.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_9",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:14"
    },
    {
      "id": "a42d07c3-65ca-4879-8429-87a7fa24f8dc",
      "slug": "every-citizen-or-at-least",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/every-citizen-or-at-least",
      "text": "Every citizen, or at least every citizen important enough to be worth watching, could be kept for twenty-four hours a day under the eyes of the police and in the sound of official propaganda, with all other channels of communication closed. The possibility of enforcing not only complete obedience to the will of the State, but complete uniformity of opinion on all subjects, now existed for the first time.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "freedom",
          "slug": "freedom",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_9",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:14"
    },
    {
      "id": "7ea5fadb-1294-4fa0-88d4-ece96b8492e6",
      "slug": "the-new-aristocracy",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/the-new-aristocracy",
      "text": "The new aristocracy was made up for the most part of bureaucrats, scientists, technicians, trade-union organizers, publicity experts, sociologists, teachers, journalists, and professional politicians. These people, whose origins lay in the salaried middle class and the upper grades of the working class, had been shaped and brought together by the barren world of monopoly industry and centralized government. As compared with their opposite numbers in past ages, they were less avaricious, less tempted by luxury, hungrier for pure power, and, above all, more conscious of what they were doing and more intent on crushing opposition. This last difference was cardinal.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_9",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:14"
    },
    {
      "id": "6e2df414-137d-4eeb-8214-971ec1118720",
      "slug": "war-was-a-sure",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/war-was-a-sure",
      "text": "'''War was a sure safeguard of sanity, and so far as the ruling classes were concerned it was probably the most important of all safeguards. While wars could be won or lost, no ruling class could be completely irresponsible. But when war becomes literally continuous, it also ceases to be dangerous. When war is continuous there is no such thing as military necessity. Technical progress can cease and the most palpable facts can be denied or disregarded.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "war",
          "slug": "war",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_9",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:14"
    },
    {
      "id": "64c0d8ca-672f-499f-b806-e2193927499e",
      "slug": "nothing-is-efficient",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/nothing-is-efficient",
      "text": "Nothing is efficient in Oceania except the Thought Police.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_9",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:14"
    },
    {
      "id": "54d31510-9514-4fcf-b7e3-8c941f1cca31",
      "slug": "there-are-only",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/there-are-only",
      "text": "There are only four ways in which a ruling class can fall from power. Either it is conquered from without, or it governs so inefficiently that the masses are stirred to revolt, or it allows a strong and discontented Middle Group to come into being, or it loses its own self-confidence and willingness to govern. These causes do not operate singly, and as a rule all four of them are present in some degree. A ruling class which could guard against all of them would remain in power permanently. Ultimately the determining factor is the mental attitude of the ruling class itself.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_9",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:14"
    },
    {
      "id": "2fc20005-ae4a-4e30-8b8d-b0962246c86e",
      "slug": "once-when-he-happened",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/once-when-he-happened",
      "text": "Once when he happened in some connexion to mention the war against Eurasia, she startled him by saying casually that in her opinion the war was not happening. The rocket bombs which fell daily on London were probably fired by the Government of Oceania itself, 'just to keep people frightened'. This was an idea that had literally never occurred to him.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "war",
          "slug": "war",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_5",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:14"
    },
    {
      "id": "0f8bc40b-c5bd-4c1c-8cc7-e864a3f45047",
      "slug": "the-aim-of-the-high",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/the-aim-of-the-high",
      "text": "'''The aim of the High is to remain where they are. The aim of the Middle is to change places with the High. The aim of the Low, when they have an aim—for it is an abiding characteristic of the Low that they are too much crushed by drudgery to be more than intermittently conscious of anything outside their daily lives—is to abolish all distinctions and create a society in which all men shall be equal.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "society",
          "slug": "society",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/society"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_9",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:14"
    },
    {
      "id": "076b67aa-cd1c-432d-99ab-733f98eee800",
      "slug": "there-was-a-direct",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/there-was-a-direct",
      "text": "There was a direct intimate connexion between chastity and political orthodoxy. For how could the fear, the hatred, and the lunatic credulity which the Party needed in its members be kept at the right pitch, except by bottling down some powerful instinct and using it as a driving force? The sex impulse was dangerous to the Party, and the Party had turned it to account. They had played a similar trick with the instinct of parenthood. The family could not actually be abolished, and, indeed, people were encouraged to be fond of their children, in almost the old-fashioned way. The children, on the other hand, were systematically turned against their parents and taught to spy on them and report their deviations. The family had become in effect an extension of the Thought Police. It was a device by means of which everyone could be surrounded night and day by informers who knew him intimately.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "family",
          "slug": "family",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/family"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_3",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:14"
    },
    {
      "id": "0104061d-522e-4813-9ac6-524513e312d4",
      "slug": "when-you-make",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/when-you-make",
      "text": "When you make love you're using up energy; and afterwards you feel happy and don't give a damn for anything. They can't bear you to feel like that. They want you to be bursting with energy all the time. All this marching up and down and cheering and waving flags is simply sex gone sour. If you're happy inside yourself, why should you get excited about Big Brother and the Three-Year Plans and the Two Minutes Hate and all the rest of their bloody rot?",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "passion",
          "slug": "passion",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/passion"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_3",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:14"
    },
    {
      "id": "f76ebf07-5bd2-4acf-a360-0c80708297f1",
      "slug": "when-he-had",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/when-he-had",
      "text": "When he had gone with that woman it had been his first lapse in two years or thereabouts. Consorting with prostitutes was forbidden, of course, but it was one of those rules that you could occasionally nerve yourself to break. It was dangerous, but it was not a life-and-death matter. To be caught with a prostitute might mean five years in a forced-labour camp: not more, if you had committed no other offence.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_6",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:13"
    },
    {
      "id": "f079ae81-3302-4e98-9872-d15799f739d1",
      "slug": "if-there-was",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/if-there-was",
      "text": "If there was hope, it MUST lie in the proles, because only there in those swarming disregarded masses, 85 per cent of the population of Oceania, could the force to destroy the Party ever be generated.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "society",
          "slug": "society",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/society"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_7",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:13"
    },
    {
      "id": "cc9da3f3-4827-4a2a-b27b-4ce963adfac4",
      "slug": "in-the-end",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/in-the-end",
      "text": "In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense. And what was terrifying was not that they would kill you for thinking otherwise, but that they might be right. For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable what then?",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "truth",
          "slug": "truth",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/truth"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_7",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:13"
    },
    {
      "id": "c5e0a5cf-5f7f-460d-9dc3-ecd836f35a4b",
      "slug": "it-was-not-desirable",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/it-was-not-desirable",
      "text": "It was not desirable that the proles should have strong political feelings. All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working-hours or shorter rations.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_7",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:13"
    },
    {
      "id": "c1fcb929-f934-4f41-8cee-86658870606a",
      "slug": "why-did-it-always",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/why-did-it-always",
      "text": "Why did it always have to be like this? Why could he not have a woman of his own instead of these filthy scuffles at intervals of years? But a real love affair was an almost unthinkable event. The women of the Party were all alike. Chastity was as deep ingrained in them as Party loyalty. By careful early conditioning, by games and cold water, by the rubbish that was dinned into them at school and in the Spies and the Youth League, by lectures, parades, songs, slogans, and martial music, the natural feeling had been driven out of them. His reason told him that there must be exceptions, but his heart did not believe it.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "love",
          "slug": "love",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love"
        },
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_6",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:13"
    },
    {
      "id": "96351555-7b19-486b-9486-41e504a7b051",
      "slug": "the-party-told",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/the-party-told",
      "text": "The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. His heart sank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "truth",
          "slug": "truth",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/truth"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_7",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:13"
    },
    {
      "id": "67d1f7a4-10da-4cca-80b9-6d55a0f6ca55",
      "slug": "the-capitalists-owned",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/the-capitalists-owned",
      "text": "The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave. They owned all the land, all the houses, all the factories, and all the money. If anyone disobeyed them they could throw them into prison, or they could take his job away and starve him to death. When any ordinary person spoke to a capitalist he had to cringe and bow to him, and take off his cap and address him as ‘Sir’.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "money",
          "slug": "money",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/money"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_7",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:13"
    },
    {
      "id": "618a523d-b2aa-4e87-8f5c-37584e47621f",
      "slug": "it-was-not",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/it-was-not",
      "text": "It was not necessary to know much. So long as they continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern. They were born, they grew up in the gutters, they went to work at twelve, they passed through a brief blossoming-period of beauty and sexual desire, they married at twenty, they were middle-aged at thirty, they died, for the most part, at sixty. Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbours, films, football, beer, and above all, gambling, filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "society",
          "slug": "society",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/society"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_7",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:13"
    },
    {
      "id": "5afda04f-a9b7-44cb-95f7-60c9881c5276",
      "slug": "the-aim-of-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/the-aim-of-the",
      "text": "The aim of the Party was not merely to prevent men and women from forming loyalties which it might not be able to control. Its real, undeclared purpose was to remove all pleasure from the sexual act.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_6",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:13"
    },
    {
      "id": "49644654-dee1-49cb-89ef-d4998fbeb6c9",
      "slug": "rebellion-meant-a-look",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/rebellion-meant-a-look",
      "text": "Rebellion meant a look in the eyes, an inflexion of the voice, at the most, an occasional whispered word. But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength. would have no need to conspire. They needed only to rise up and shake themselves like a horse shaking off flies. If they chose they could blow the Party to pieces tomorrow morning.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "society",
          "slug": "society",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/society"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_7",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:13"
    },
    {
      "id": "3f04af46-96ab-4899-ab8d-b3ff54330f76",
      "slug": "tacitly-the-party",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/tacitly-the-party",
      "text": "Tacitly the Party was even inclined to encourage prostitution, as an outlet for instincts which could not be altogether suppressed. Mere debauchery did not matter very much, so long as it was furtive and joyless and only involved the women of a submerged and despised class. The unforgivable crime was promiscuity between Party members. But — though this was one of the crimes that the accused in the great purges invariably confessed to — it was difficult to imagine any such thing actually happening.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_6",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:13"
    },
    {
      "id": "21d6cf20-eb9d-489a-8ec3-effc0ff826c1",
      "slug": "the-ideal-set",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/the-ideal-set",
      "text": "The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering — a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons — a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting — three hundred million people all with the same face.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "society",
          "slug": "society",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/society"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_7",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:13"
    },
    {
      "id": "1ef42d5f-d9ae-4246-9643-85e6734c76c1",
      "slug": "his-heart-leapt",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/his-heart-leapt",
      "text": "His heart leapt. Scores of times she had done it: he wished it had been hundreds — thousands. Anything that hinted at corruption always filled him with a wild hope. Who knew, perhaps the Party was rotten under the surface, its cult of strenuousness and self-denial simply a sham concealing iniquity. If he could have infected the whole lot of them with leprosy or syphilis, how gladly he would have done so! Anything to rot, to weaken, to undermine!",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_2",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:13"
    },
    {
      "id": "14b7317f-b6f4-49cc-8ac9-07065e221ac4",
      "slug": "the-only-recognized",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/the-only-recognized",
      "text": "The only recognized purpose of marriage was to beget children for the service of the Party. Sexual intercourse was to be looked on as a slightly disgusting minor operation, like having an enema. This again was never put into plain words, but in an indirect way it was rubbed into every Party member from childhood onwards.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "marriage",
          "slug": "marriage",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/marriage"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_6",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:13"
    },
    {
      "id": "11cecff5-1560-46ac-a059-c6d51fe33709",
      "slug": "the-party-taught",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/the-party-taught",
      "text": "The Party taught that the proles were natural inferiors who must be kept in subjection, like animals, by the application of a few simple rules.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "society",
          "slug": "society",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/society"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_7",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:13"
    },
    {
      "id": "0a46cc33-261d-4cbc-8786-8ba483c6da32",
      "slug": "a-few-agents",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/a-few-agents",
      "text": "A few agents of the Thought Police moved always among them, spreading false rumours and marking down and eliminating the few individuals who were judged capable of becoming dangerous.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_7",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:13"
    },
    {
      "id": "0289509f-04c3-4a43-8ad7-a679b11b7aff",
      "slug": "it-was-terribly",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/it-was-terribly",
      "text": "It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself—anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face ... was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime...\"",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "freedom",
          "slug": "freedom",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_5",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:13"
    },
    {
      "id": "d2030615-718e-4d88-957b-a8b89a5e5c91",
      "slug": "it-was-almost",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/it-was-almost",
      "text": "It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children. And with good reason, for hardly a week passed in which The Times did not carry a paragraph describing how some eavesdropping little sneak — 'child hero' was the phrase generally used — had overheard some compromising remark and denounced its parents to the Thought Police.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "family",
          "slug": "family",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/family"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_2",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:12"
    },
    {
      "id": "bf2dec6f-1ef5-495a-a0f8-061eb21b4cb2",
      "slug": "and-if-all",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/and-if-all",
      "text": "And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed -if all records told the same tale — then the lie passed into history and became truth. Who controls the past,' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past. And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting. It was quite simple. All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory. 'Reality control', they called it: in Newspeak, 'doublethink'.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "history",
          "slug": "history",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/history"
        },
        {
          "name": "lies",
          "slug": "lies",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/lies"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_3",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:12"
    },
    {
      "id": "b2e7623f-c92b-488f-92f8-6d35db56f10f",
      "slug": "the-great-purges",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/the-great-purges",
      "text": "The great purges involving thousands of people, with public trials of traitors and thought-criminals who made abject confession of their crimes and were afterwards executed, were special show-pieces not occurring oftener than once in a couple of years. More commonly, people who had incurred the displeasure of the Party simply disappeared and were never heard of again.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_4",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:12"
    },
    {
      "id": "abf1d95e-d2b8-40e8-98fb-75fe6df2d385",
      "slug": "the-ministry-of-truth-contained",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/the-ministry-of-truth-contained",
      "text": "The Ministry of Truth contained, it was said, three thousand rooms above ground level... Scattered about London there were just three other buildings of similar appearance and size... They were the homes of the four Ministries between which the entire apparatus of government was divided. The Ministry of Truth, which concerned itself with news, entertainment, education, and the fine arts. The Ministry of Peace, which concerned itself with war. The Ministry of Love, which maintained law and order. And the Ministry of Plenty, which was responsible for economic affairs.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_1",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:12"
    },
    {
      "id": "a5d84e3b-30ce-47ec-bd59-bfec57a7f62a",
      "slug": "by-2050-earlier",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/by-2050-earlier",
      "text": "‘By 2050 — earlier, probably — all real knowledge of Oldspeak will have disappeared. The whole literature of the past will have been destroyed. Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron — they’ll exist only in Newspeak versions, not merely changed into something different, but actually changed into something contradictory of what they used to be. Even the literature of the Party will change. Even the slogans will change. How could you have a slogan like “freedom is slavery” when the concept of freedom has been abolished? The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking — not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.’",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "thinking",
          "slug": "thinking",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/thinking"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_5",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:12"
    },
    {
      "id": "a14d9a67-9bd3-4e1f-aeac-baaa793ec3ad",
      "slug": "one-of-these",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/one-of-these",
      "text": "One of these days, thought Winston with sudden deep conviction, Syme will be vaporized. He is too intelligent. He sees too clearly and speaks too plainly. The Party does not like such people. One day he will disappear. It is written in his face.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_5",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:12"
    },
    {
      "id": "a0577bdd-41ec-4d46-b016-a453710168da",
      "slug": "he-discovered-that",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/he-discovered-that",
      "text": "He discovered that while he sat helplessly musing he had also been writing, as though by automatic action. And it was no longer the same cramped, awkward handwriting as before. His pen had slid voluptuously over the smooth paper, printing in large neat capitals — DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER...",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_1",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:12"
    },
    {
      "id": "90b57bc3-9109-451e-aadd-34e8dcb7d92d",
      "slug": "whether-he-went",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/whether-he-went",
      "text": "Whether he went on with the diary, or whether he did not go on with it, made no difference. The Thought Police would get him just the same. He had committed— would still have committed, even if he had never set pen to paper— the essential crime that contained all others in itself. Thoughtcrime, they called it. Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "freedom",
          "slug": "freedom",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_1",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:12"
    },
    {
      "id": "60781a12-0f2d-4fdd-b8af-9d8a7a8bf9d9",
      "slug": "the-ministry-of-love",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/the-ministry-of-love",
      "text": "The Ministry of Love was the really frightening one. There were no windows in it at all... It was a place impossible to enter except on official business, and then only by penetrating through a maze of barbed-wire entanglements, steel doors, and hidden machine-gun nests. Even the streets leading up to its outer barriers were roamed by gorilla-faced guards in black uniforms, armed with jointed truncheons.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_1",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:12"
    },
    {
      "id": "4ccc1948-3305-4339-98ad-bea74f073b47",
      "slug": "if-the-party",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/if-the-party",
      "text": "If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened — that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death?",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "history",
          "slug": "history",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/history"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_3",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:12"
    },
    {
      "id": "37a46fd6-6d49-4476-bcd9-1eacfaf379e1",
      "slug": "it-was-always-at",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/it-was-always-at",
      "text": "It was always at night—the arrests invariably happened at night. The sudden jerk out of sleep, the rough hand shaking your shoulder, the lights glaring in your eyes, the ring of hard faces round the bed. In the vast majority of cases there was no trial, no report of the arrest. People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_1",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:12"
    },
    {
      "id": "201dd4aa-2420-4bfd-8011-39446e2d06d0",
      "slug": "on-each-landing",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/on-each-landing",
      "text": "On each landing, opposite the lift-shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall. It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU' the caption beneath it ran.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_1",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:12"
    },
    {
      "id": "0d6f0f7c-7010-40ed-b5b2-0268029baec5",
      "slug": "like-an-answer",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/like-an-answer",
      "text": "Like an answer, the three slogans on the white face of the Ministry of Truth came back to him: WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH. On coins, on stamps, on the covers of books, on banners, on posters, and on the wrappings of a cigarette Packet — everywhere. Always the eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, working or eating, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or in bed — no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "freedom",
          "slug": "freedom",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_2",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:12"
    },
    {
      "id": "03d4a7d1-5918-4066-9550-84185063675e",
      "slug": "the-process-will",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/the-process-will",
      "text": "'The process will still be continuing long after you and I are dead. Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller. Even now, of course, there's no reason or excuse for committing thoughtcrime. It's merely a question of self-discipline, reality-control. But in the end there won't be any need even for that. The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect. Newspeak is Ingsoc and Ingsoc is Newspeak,' he added with a sort of mystical satisfaction. 'Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?'",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Nineteen Eighty-Four",
        "slug": "nineteen-eighty-four",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "words",
          "slug": "words",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/words"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Chapter_5",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:12"
    },
    {
      "id": "73e78c05-376a-4df6-b113-fd77cb963e18",
      "slug": "living-a-lie",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/burmese-days/living-a-lie",
      "text": "Living a lie the whole time — the lie that we're here to uplift our poor black brothers instead of to rob them ... it corrupts us, it corrupts us in ways you can't imagine.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Burmese Days",
        "slug": "burmese-days",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/burmese-days"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "lies",
          "slug": "lies",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/lies"
        },
        {
          "name": "hypocrisy",
          "slug": "hypocrisy",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hypocrisy"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Orwell#Burmese_Days_(1934)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:09"
    },
    {
      "id": "24b05da0-98b8-4b58-b10a-ef70482f86d9",
      "slug": "i-live-in-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/c-s-lewis/the-screwtape-letters/i-live-in-the",
      "text": "I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of \"Admin.\" The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid \"dens of crime\" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "C. S. Lewis",
        "slug": "c-s-lewis",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/c-s-lewis"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Screwtape Letters",
        "slug": "the-screwtape-letters",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/c-s-lewis/the-screwtape-letters"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "evil",
          "slug": "evil",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/evil"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/C._S._Lewis#The_Screwtape_Letters_(1942)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:01"
    },
    {
      "id": "d2710cad-0e92-4965-8372-36b83ceaa9b2",
      "slug": "i-was-invisible",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/hg-wells/the-invisible-man/i-was-invisible",
      "text": "I was invisible, and I was only just beginning to realise the extraordinary advantage my invisibility gave me. My head was already teeming with plans of all the wild and wonderful things I had now impunity to do.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "H.G. Wells",
        "slug": "hg-wells",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/hg-wells"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Invisible Man",
        "slug": "the-invisible-man",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/hg-wells/the-invisible-man"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/H._G._Wells#The_Invisible_Man_(1897)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:57"
    },
    {
      "id": "a3c67d8b-423e-4d05-8a55-132685471c41",
      "slug": "pull-yourself-together",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/hg-wells/the-invisible-man/pull-yourself-together",
      "text": "\"Pull yourself together,\" said the Voice, \"for you have to do the job I've chosen for you.\"Mr. Marvel blew out his cheeks, and his eyes were round.\"I've chosen you,\" said the Voice. \"You are the only man except some of those fools down there, who knows there is such a thing as an invisible man. You have to be my helper. Help me—and I will do great things for you. An invisible man is a man of power.\"",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "H.G. Wells",
        "slug": "hg-wells",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/hg-wells"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Invisible Man",
        "slug": "the-invisible-man",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/hg-wells/the-invisible-man"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/H._G._Wells#The_Invisible_Man_(1897)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:57"
    },
    {
      "id": "6656253d-c4d4-4947-9e97-af6b2c33ebbb",
      "slug": "my-mood-i-say",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/hg-wells/the-invisible-man/my-mood-i-say",
      "text": "My mood, I say, was one of exaltation. I felt as a seeing man might do, with padded feet and noiseless clothes, in a city of the blind. I experienced a wild impulse to jest, to startle people, to clap men on the back, fling people's hats astray, and generally revel in my extraordinary advantage.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "H.G. Wells",
        "slug": "hg-wells",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/hg-wells"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Invisible Man",
        "slug": "the-invisible-man",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/hg-wells/the-invisible-man"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/H._G._Wells#The_Invisible_Man_(1897)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:57"
    },
    {
      "id": "47d2d311-6b4b-4ef9-8fe5-3a98b6499f7e",
      "slug": "you-have-been",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/hg-wells/the-invisible-man/you-have-been",
      "text": "\"You have been amazingly energetic and clever,\" this letter ran, \"though what you stand to gain by it I cannot imagine. You are against me. For a whole day you have chased me; you have tried to rob me of a night's rest. But I have had food in spite of you, I have slept in spite of you, and the game is only beginning. The game is only beginning. There is nothing for it, but to start the Terror. This announces the first day of the Terror. Port Burdock is no longer under the Queen, tell your Colonel of Police, and the rest of them; it is under me—the Terror! This is day one of year one of the new epoch—the Epoch of the Invisible Man. I am Invisible Man the First. To begin with the rule will be easy. The first day there will be one execution for the sake of example—a man named Kemp. Death starts for him to-day. He may lock himself away, hide himself away, get guards about him, put on armour if he likes—Death, the unseen Death, is coming. Let him take precautions; it will impress my people. Death starts from the pillar box by midday. The letter will fall in as the postman comes along, then off! The game begins. Death starts. Help him not, my people, lest Death fall upon you also. Today Kemp is to die.\"",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "H.G. Wells",
        "slug": "hg-wells",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/hg-wells"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Invisible Man",
        "slug": "the-invisible-man",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/hg-wells/the-invisible-man"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "death",
          "slug": "death",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/death"
        },
        {
          "name": "crime",
          "slug": "crime",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/crime"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/H._G._Wells#The_Invisible_Man_(1897)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:57"
    },
    {
      "id": "024951eb-c486-46f5-838f-81a7c9be837a",
      "slug": "it-is-wrong",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/mahatma-gandhi/hind-swaraj/it-is-wrong",
      "text": "It is wrong to consider that courts are established for the benefit of the people. Those who want to perpetuate their power do so through the courts. If people were to settle their own quarrels, a third party would not be able to exercise any authority over them. Truly, men were less unmanly when they settled their disputes either by fighting or by asking their relatives to decide for them. They became more unmanly and cowardly when they resorted to the courts of law. It was certainly a sign of savagery when they settled their disputes by fighting. Is it any less so, if I ask a third party to decide between you and me? Surely, the decision of a third party is not always right. The parties alone know who is right. We, in our simplicity and ignorance, imagine that a stranger, by taking our money, gives us justice. (p. 48)",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Mahatma Gandhi",
        "slug": "mahatma-gandhi",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/mahatma-gandhi"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Hind Swaraj",
        "slug": "hind-swaraj",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/mahatma-gandhi/hind-swaraj"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "justice",
          "slug": "justice",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/justice"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi#Hind_Swaraj_(1909)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:54"
    },
    {
      "id": "e67e8d32-2d15-4ba0-a71c-a217e61d31f2",
      "slug": "he-is-taller",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jonathan-swift/gullivers-travels/he-is-taller",
      "text": "He is taller by almost the breadth of my nail, than any of his court, which alone is enough to strike an awe into the beholders.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Jonathan Swift",
        "slug": "jonathan-swift",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jonathan-swift"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Gulliver's Travels",
        "slug": "gullivers-travels",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jonathan-swift/gullivers-travels"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jonathan_Swift#Gulliver's_Travels_(1726)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:50"
    },
    {
      "id": "dce61d30-6798-43c7-b2e8-0f7a8c920a76",
      "slug": "will-ye-submit",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton/paradise-lost/will-ye-submit",
      "text": "Will ye submit your necks, and chuse to bend\n\nThe supple knee? ye will not, if I trust\n\nTo know ye right, or if ye know your selves\n\nNatives and Sons of Heav'n possest before\n\nBy none, and if not equal all, yet free,\n\nEqually free; for Orders and Degrees\n\nJarr not with liberty, but well consist.\n\nWho can in reason then or right assume\n\nMonarchie over such as live by right...",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "John Milton",
        "slug": "john-milton",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Paradise Lost",
        "slug": "paradise-lost",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton/paradise-lost"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "freedom",
          "slug": "freedom",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost#Book_V",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:47"
    },
    {
      "id": "1194a1b6-c135-4a82-85d4-06906ba7410d",
      "slug": "so-spake-the-fiend",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton/paradise-lost/so-spake-the-fiend",
      "text": "So spake the Fiend, and with necessity,\n\nThe tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "John Milton",
        "slug": "john-milton",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Paradise Lost",
        "slug": "paradise-lost",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton/paradise-lost"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "evil",
          "slug": "evil",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/evil"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost#Book_IV",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:47"
    },
    {
      "id": "671d2c69-4419-4e63-906d-58b0fe64d5b9",
      "slug": "so-farewel-hope",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton/paradise-lost/so-farewel-hope",
      "text": "So farewel Hope, and with Hope farewel Fear,\n\nFarewel Remorse: all Good to me is lost;\n\nEvil be thou my Good; by thee at least\n\nDivided Empire with Heav'ns King I hold\n\nBy thee, and more then half perhaps will reigne;\n\nAs Man ere long, and this new World shall know.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "John Milton",
        "slug": "john-milton",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Paradise Lost",
        "slug": "paradise-lost",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton/paradise-lost"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "evil",
          "slug": "evil",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/evil"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost#Book_IV",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:46"
    },
    {
      "id": "8f0c56b6-72d4-4601-af8f-c8c104719a2f",
      "slug": "with-grave-aspect",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton/paradise-lost/with-grave-aspect",
      "text": "With grave\n\nAspect he rose, and in his rising seemed\n\nA pillar of state; deep on his front engraven\n\nDeliberation sat and public care;\n\nAnd princely counsel in his face yet shone,\n\nMajestic though in ruin: sage he stood,\n\nWith Atlantean shoulders, fit to bear\n\nThe weight of mightiest monarchies; his look\n\nDrew audience and attention still as night\n\nOr summer's noontide air.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "John Milton",
        "slug": "john-milton",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Paradise Lost",
        "slug": "paradise-lost",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton/paradise-lost"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost#Book_II",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:45"
    },
    {
      "id": "5b734896-0db5-461b-bbd6-ca841d2d37c1",
      "slug": "to-sit-in-darkness",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton/paradise-lost/to-sit-in-darkness",
      "text": "To sit in darkness here\n\nHatching vain empires.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "John Milton",
        "slug": "john-milton",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Paradise Lost",
        "slug": "paradise-lost",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton/paradise-lost"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost#Book_II",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:45"
    },
    {
      "id": "57003577-22c9-46ac-bdaf-6e275d421161",
      "slug": "to-reign-is-worth",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton/paradise-lost/to-reign-is-worth",
      "text": "To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:\n\nBetter to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "John Milton",
        "slug": "john-milton",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Paradise Lost",
        "slug": "paradise-lost",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton/paradise-lost"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "pride",
          "slug": "pride",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/pride"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Milton#Paradise_Lost_(1667)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:45"
    },
    {
      "id": "0b840e5f-d01f-49e5-92e6-1b9be6f43413",
      "slug": "high-on-a-throne",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton/paradise-lost/high-on-a-throne",
      "text": "High on a throne of royal state, which far\n\nOutshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind,\n\nOr where the gorgeous East with richest hand\n\nShowers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold,\n\nSatan exalted sat, by merit raised\n\nTo that bad eminence; and from despair\n\nThus high uplifted beyond hope, aspires\n\nBeyond thus high, insatiate to pursue\n\nVain war with heav'n.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "John Milton",
        "slug": "john-milton",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Paradise Lost",
        "slug": "paradise-lost",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton/paradise-lost"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "evil",
          "slug": "evil",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/evil"
        },
        {
          "name": "pride",
          "slug": "pride",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/pride"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost#Book_II",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:45"
    },
    {
      "id": "8a589130-916e-4de4-9aa2-98f31e5fccd6",
      "slug": "indeed-when-a-ruler",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tacitus/the-histories/indeed-when-a-ruler",
      "text": "Indeed, when a ruler once becomes unpopular, all his acts, be they good or bad, tell against him.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Tacitus",
        "slug": "tacitus",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tacitus"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Histories",
        "slug": "the-histories",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tacitus/the-histories"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tacitus#Histories_(100-110)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:43"
    },
    {
      "id": "f2e684b4-536f-4a64-a59f-d3ec66e28752",
      "slug": "such-was-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-gibbon/the-history-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire/such-was-the",
      "text": "Such was the unhappy condition of the Roman emperors, that, whatever might be their conduct, their fate was commonly the same. A life of pleasure or virtue, of severity or mildness, of indolence or glory, alike led to an untimely grave; and almost every reign is closed by the same disgusting repetition of treason and murder.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Edward Gibbon",
        "slug": "edward-gibbon",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-gibbon"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire",
        "slug": "the-history-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-gibbon/the-history-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "death",
          "slug": "death",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/death"
        },
        {
          "name": "fate",
          "slug": "fate",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fate"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edward_Gibbon#The_History_of_the_Decline_And_Fall_Of_The_Roman_Empire_(1776%E2%80%931788)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:42"
    },
    {
      "id": "dcd7e43e-c7b3-4262-92ee-6c63fc6090d1",
      "slug": "when-aurelian-assumed",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-gibbon/the-history-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire/when-aurelian-assumed",
      "text": "When Aurelian assumed his seat, his manly grace and majestic figure taught the barbarians to revere the person as well as the purple of the conqueror.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Edward Gibbon",
        "slug": "edward-gibbon",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-gibbon"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire",
        "slug": "the-history-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-gibbon/the-history-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edward_Gibbon#The_History_of_the_Decline_And_Fall_Of_The_Roman_Empire_(1776%E2%80%931788)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:42"
    },
    {
      "id": "7ebd252f-3a3f-42aa-a16d-45baabb12653",
      "slug": "the-same-timid",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-gibbon/the-history-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire/the-same-timid",
      "text": "The same timid policy, of dividing whatever is united, of reducing whatever is eminent, of dreading every active power, and of expecting that the most feeble will be the most obedient, seems to pervade the institutions of several princes, and particularly those of Constantine.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Edward Gibbon",
        "slug": "edward-gibbon",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-gibbon"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire",
        "slug": "the-history-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-gibbon/the-history-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edward_Gibbon#The_History_of_the_Decline_And_Fall_Of_The_Roman_Empire_(1776%E2%80%931788)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:42"
    },
    {
      "id": "7bdbcbb5-42e4-4707-b677-22e38f8968e7",
      "slug": "when-gallienus-received",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-gibbon/the-history-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire/when-gallienus-received",
      "text": "When Gallienus received the intelligence that his capital was delivered from the barbarians, he was much less delighted than alarmed with the courage of the senate, since it might one day prompt them to rescue the public from domestic tyranny as well as from foreign invasion. His timid ingratitude was published to his subjects, in an edict which prohibited the senators from exercising any military employment, and even from approaching the camps of the legions. But his fears were groundless. The rich and luxurious nobles, sinking into their natural character, accepted, as a favor, this disgraceful exemption from military service; and as long as they were indulged in the enjoyment of their baths, their theatres, and their villas, they cheerfully resigned the more dangerous cares of empire to the rough hands of peasants and soldiers.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Edward Gibbon",
        "slug": "edward-gibbon",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-gibbon"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire",
        "slug": "the-history-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-gibbon/the-history-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edward_Gibbon#The_History_of_the_Decline_And_Fall_Of_The_Roman_Empire_(1776%E2%80%931788)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:42"
    },
    {
      "id": "6b8dba78-a731-4eda-9925-2e64217aacb1",
      "slug": "in-the-life",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-gibbon/the-history-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire/in-the-life",
      "text": "In the life of Augustus we behold the tyrant of the republic converted almost by imperceptible degrees into the father of his country and of human kind. In that of Constantine we may contemplate a hero, who had so long inspired his subjects with love and his enemies with terror, degenerating into a cruel and dissolute monarch, corrupted by his fortune, or raised by conquest above the necessity of dissimulation.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Edward Gibbon",
        "slug": "edward-gibbon",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-gibbon"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire",
        "slug": "the-history-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-gibbon/the-history-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edward_Gibbon#The_History_of_the_Decline_And_Fall_Of_The_Roman_Empire_(1776%E2%80%931788)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:42"
    },
    {
      "id": "45446fa5-8b83-4996-93d0-5d1852b95a6f",
      "slug": "the-divided-administration",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-gibbon/the-history-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire/the-divided-administration",
      "text": "The divided administration, which had been formed by Constantine, relaxed the vigour of the state, while it secured the tranquility of the monarch.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Edward Gibbon",
        "slug": "edward-gibbon",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-gibbon"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire",
        "slug": "the-history-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-gibbon/the-history-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edward_Gibbon#The_History_of_the_Decline_And_Fall_Of_The_Roman_Empire_(1776%E2%80%931788)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:42"
    },
    {
      "id": "3f1fe848-d9f0-4537-a782-0e4b57a089b5",
      "slug": "t-he-progress-of-despotism",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-gibbon/the-history-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire/t-he-progress-of-despotism",
      "text": "[T]he progress of despotism ... tends to disappoint its own purpose.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Edward Gibbon",
        "slug": "edward-gibbon",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-gibbon"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire",
        "slug": "the-history-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-gibbon/the-history-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edward_Gibbon#The_History_of_the_Decline_And_Fall_Of_The_Roman_Empire_(1776%E2%80%931788)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:42"
    },
    {
      "id": "38b400e5-869e-4e82-9d9e-1244bfefd390",
      "slug": "it-is-difficult",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-gibbon/the-history-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire/it-is-difficult",
      "text": "It is difficult to paint the light, the various, the inconstant character of Gallienus, which he displayed without constraint, as soon as he became sole possessor of the empire. In every art that he attempted, his lively genius enabled him to succeed; and as his genius was destitute of judgment, he attempted every art, except the important ones of war and government. He was a master of several curious, but useless sciences, a ready orator, an elegant poet, a skilful gardener, an excellent cook, and most contemptible prince... There were, however, a few short moments in the life of Gallienus, when, exasperated by some recent injury, he suddenly appeared the intrepid soldier and the cruel tyrant; till, satiated with blood, or fatigued by resistance, he insensibly sunk into the natural mildness and indolence of his character.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Edward Gibbon",
        "slug": "edward-gibbon",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-gibbon"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire",
        "slug": "the-history-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-gibbon/the-history-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "character",
          "slug": "character",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/character"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edward_Gibbon#The_History_of_the_Decline_And_Fall_Of_The_Roman_Empire_(1776%E2%80%931788)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:42"
    },
    {
      "id": "17e34936-aff9-46fd-b820-0b0c3fd4af67",
      "slug": "some-particular-instances",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-gibbon/the-history-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire/some-particular-instances",
      "text": "Some particular instances may occur of eunuchs distinguished by their fidelity, their valour, and their abilities; but if we examine the general history of Persia, India, and China, we shall find that the power of the eunuchs has uniformly marked the decline and fall of every dynasty.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Edward Gibbon",
        "slug": "edward-gibbon",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-gibbon"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire",
        "slug": "the-history-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-gibbon/the-history-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        },
        {
          "name": "history",
          "slug": "history",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/history"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edward_Gibbon#The_History_of_the_Decline_And_Fall_Of_The_Roman_Empire_(1776%E2%80%931788)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:42"
    },
    {
      "id": "0f2bb225-d709-4188-81f1-5cdb8f805053",
      "slug": "those-who-refuse",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-gibbon/the-history-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire/those-who-refuse",
      "text": "Those who refuse the sword must renounce the sceptre.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Edward Gibbon",
        "slug": "edward-gibbon",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-gibbon"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire",
        "slug": "the-history-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-gibbon/the-history-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edward_Gibbon#The_History_of_the_Decline_And_Fall_Of_The_Roman_Empire_(1776%E2%80%931788)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:42"
    },
    {
      "id": "e88603f9-f0b1-4311-b613-591fcb09949d",
      "slug": "the-true-interest",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-gibbon/the-history-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire/the-true-interest",
      "text": "The true interest of an absolute monarch generally coincides with that of his people. Their numbers, their wealth, their order, and their security, are the best and only foundations of his real greatness; and were he totally devoid of virtue, prudence might supply its place, and would dictate the same rule of conduct.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Edward Gibbon",
        "slug": "edward-gibbon",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-gibbon"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire",
        "slug": "the-history-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-gibbon/the-history-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edward_Gibbon#The_History_of_the_Decline_And_Fall_Of_The_Roman_Empire_(1776%E2%80%931788)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:41"
    },
    {
      "id": "c3b446ba-8d89-4ee5-879e-88cdcec30f56",
      "slug": "the-principles-of-a-free",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-gibbon/the-history-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire/the-principles-of-a-free",
      "text": "The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Edward Gibbon",
        "slug": "edward-gibbon",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-gibbon"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire",
        "slug": "the-history-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-gibbon/the-history-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "freedom",
          "slug": "freedom",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edward_Gibbon#The_History_of_the_Decline_And_Fall_Of_The_Roman_Empire_(1776%E2%80%931788)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:41"
    },
    {
      "id": "5c2456f3-ecd7-4071-a051-1ddb8b45b26e",
      "slug": "the-contemporaries-of-severus",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-gibbon/the-history-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire/the-contemporaries-of-severus",
      "text": "The contemporaries of Severus, in the enjoyment of the peace and glory of his reign, forgave the cruelties by which it had been introduced. Posterity, who experienced the fatal effects of his maxims and example, justly considered him as the principal author of the decline of the Roman Empire.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Edward Gibbon",
        "slug": "edward-gibbon",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-gibbon"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire",
        "slug": "the-history-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-gibbon/the-history-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "history",
          "slug": "history",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/history"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edward_Gibbon#The_History_of_the_Decline_And_Fall_Of_The_Roman_Empire_(1776%E2%80%931788)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:41"
    },
    {
      "id": "55d55eb5-bf50-4b19-864a-25bdc06563aa",
      "slug": "a-weak-prince",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-gibbon/the-history-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire/a-weak-prince",
      "text": "A weak prince will always be governed by his domestics.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Edward Gibbon",
        "slug": "edward-gibbon",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-gibbon"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire",
        "slug": "the-history-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-gibbon/the-history-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edward_Gibbon#The_History_of_the_Decline_And_Fall_Of_The_Roman_Empire_(1776%E2%80%931788)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:41"
    },
    {
      "id": "229b7f2c-23d9-43f0-9e70-44dcb19d555d",
      "slug": "it-was-dangerous",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-gibbon/the-history-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire/it-was-dangerous",
      "text": "It was dangerous to trust the sincerity of Augustus; to seem to distrust it was still more dangerous.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Edward Gibbon",
        "slug": "edward-gibbon",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-gibbon"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire",
        "slug": "the-history-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-gibbon/the-history-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edward_Gibbon#The_History_of_the_Decline_And_Fall_Of_The_Roman_Empire_(1776%E2%80%931788)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:41"
    },
    {
      "id": "f633a2bc-8a64-46c6-a8e5-e2768e9efd58",
      "slug": "when-the-leaders",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmund-burke/reflections-on-the-revolution-in-france/when-the-leaders",
      "text": "When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Edmund Burke",
        "slug": "edmund-burke",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmund-burke"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Reflections on the Revolution in France",
        "slug": "reflections-on-the-revolution-in-france",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmund-burke/reflections-on-the-revolution-in-france"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke#Reflections_on_the_Revolution_in_France_(1790)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:39"
    },
    {
      "id": "e54b8ccd-7446-48af-8d21-0af0c6b94648",
      "slug": "where-popular-authority",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmund-burke/reflections-on-the-revolution-in-france/where-popular-authority",
      "text": "Where popular authority is absolute and unrestrained, the people have an infinitely greater, because a far better founded, confidence in their own power. They are themselves, in a great measure, their own instruments. They are nearer to their objects. Besides, they are less under responsibility to one of the greatest controlling powers on the earth, the sense of fame and estimation. The share of infamy that is likely to fall to the lot of each individual in public acts is small indeed; the operation of opinion being in the inverse ratio to the number of those who abuse power. Their own approbation of their own acts has to them the appearance of a public judgment in their favor. A perfect democracy is, therefore, the most shameless thing in the world. As it is the most shameless, it is also the most fearless. No man apprehends in his person that he can be made subject to punishment.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Edmund Burke",
        "slug": "edmund-burke",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmund-burke"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Reflections on the Revolution in France",
        "slug": "reflections-on-the-revolution-in-france",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmund-burke/reflections-on-the-revolution-in-france"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke#Reflections_on_the_Revolution_in_France_(1790)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:39"
    },
    {
      "id": "7ddd102d-db39-4ed8-b7c2-da0f690aa9b4",
      "slug": "whatever-is-supreme",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmund-burke/reflections-on-the-revolution-in-france/whatever-is-supreme",
      "text": "Whatever is supreme in a state, ought to have, as much as possible, its judicial authority so constituted as not only not to depend upon it, but in some sort to balance it. It ought to give a security to its justice against its power. It ought to make its judicature, as it were, something exterior to the state.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Edmund Burke",
        "slug": "edmund-burke",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmund-burke"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Reflections on the Revolution in France",
        "slug": "reflections-on-the-revolution-in-france",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmund-burke/reflections-on-the-revolution-in-france"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        },
        {
          "name": "justice",
          "slug": "justice",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/justice"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke#Reflections_on_the_Revolution_in_France_(1790)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:39"
    },
    {
      "id": "2159ebaf-8a84-49a8-b7b4-65641653c5e3",
      "slug": "the-wise-will",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmund-burke/reflections-on-the-revolution-in-france/the-wise-will",
      "text": "The wise will determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable from sensibility to oppression; the high-minded from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Edmund Burke",
        "slug": "edmund-burke",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmund-burke"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Reflections on the Revolution in France",
        "slug": "reflections-on-the-revolution-in-france",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmund-burke/reflections-on-the-revolution-in-france"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke#Reflections_on_the_Revolution_in_France_(1790)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:39"
    },
    {
      "id": "d34178d5-dcc2-4436-a07d-751c758b9b26",
      "slug": "kings-will-be-tyrants",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmund-burke/reflections-on-the-revolution-in-france/kings-will-be-tyrants",
      "text": "Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Edmund Burke",
        "slug": "edmund-burke",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmund-burke"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Reflections on the Revolution in France",
        "slug": "reflections-on-the-revolution-in-france",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmund-burke/reflections-on-the-revolution-in-france"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 334,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke#Reflections_on_the_Revolution_in_France_(1790)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:38"
    },
    {
      "id": "b3fdf784-daae-4268-84ec-79fc1aabcb53",
      "slug": "government-is-a-contrivance",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmund-burke/reflections-on-the-revolution-in-france/government-is-a-contrivance",
      "text": "Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Edmund Burke",
        "slug": "edmund-burke",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmund-burke"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Reflections on the Revolution in France",
        "slug": "reflections-on-the-revolution-in-france",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmund-burke/reflections-on-the-revolution-in-france"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke#Reflections_on_the_Revolution_in_France_(1790)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:38"
    },
    {
      "id": "89c7f95e-01a1-4299-a1b4-628809ad1d76",
      "slug": "in-their-nomination",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmund-burke/reflections-on-the-revolution-in-france/in-their-nomination",
      "text": "In their nomination to office they will not appoint to the exercise of authority as to a pitiful job, but as to a holy function.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Edmund Burke",
        "slug": "edmund-burke",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmund-burke"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Reflections on the Revolution in France",
        "slug": "reflections-on-the-revolution-in-france",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmund-burke/reflections-on-the-revolution-in-france"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 356,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke#Reflections_on_the_Revolution_in_France_(1790)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:38"
    },
    {
      "id": "65e018c3-3051-4b06-aacc-7be93c21524e",
      "slug": "all-persons-possessing",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmund-burke/reflections-on-the-revolution-in-france/all-persons-possessing",
      "text": "All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Edmund Burke",
        "slug": "edmund-burke",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmund-burke"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Reflections on the Revolution in France",
        "slug": "reflections-on-the-revolution-in-france",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmund-burke/reflections-on-the-revolution-in-france"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "responsibility",
          "slug": "responsibility",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/responsibility"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke#Reflections_on_the_Revolution_in_France_(1790)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:38"
    },
    {
      "id": "5c89c20d-2e8b-496c-a5d2-1eb2240943f9",
      "slug": "to-execute-laws",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmund-burke/reflections-on-the-revolution-in-france/to-execute-laws",
      "text": "To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is a great trust.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Edmund Burke",
        "slug": "edmund-burke",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmund-burke"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Reflections on the Revolution in France",
        "slug": "reflections-on-the-revolution-in-france",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmund-burke/reflections-on-the-revolution-in-france"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 497,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke#Reflections_on_the_Revolution_in_France_(1790)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:38"
    },
    {
      "id": "989be10b-e928-4969-a39c-2c8db587b507",
      "slug": "it-is-amusing-to",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/g-chesterton/heretics/it-is-amusing-to",
      "text": "It is amusing to think how much conservative ingenuity has been wasted in the defence of the House of Lords by men who were desperately endeavouring to prove that the House of Lords consisted of clever men. There is one really good defence of the House of Lords, though admirers of the peerage are strangely coy about using it; and that is, that the House of Lords, in its full and proper strength, consists of stupid men. It really would be a plausible defence of that otherwise indefensible body to point out that the clever men in the Commons, who owed their power to cleverness, ought in the last resort to be checked by the average man in the Lords, who owed their power to accident. Of course, there would be many answers to such a contention, as, for instance, that the House of Lords is largely no longer a House of Lords, but a House of tradesmen and financiers, or that the bulk of the commonplace nobility do not vote, and so leave the chamber to the prigs and the specialists and the mad old gentlemen with hobbies. But on some occasions the House of Lords, even under all these disadvantages, is in some sense representative. When all the peers flocked together to vote against Mr. Gladstone's second Home Rule Bill, for instance, those who said that the peers represented the English people, were perfectly right. All those dear old men who happened to be born peers were at that moment, and upon that question, the precise counterpart of all the dear old men who happened to be born paupers or middle-class gentlemen. That mob of peers did really represent the English people--that is to say, it was honest, ignorant, vaguely excited, almost unanimous, and obviously wrong. Of course, rational democracy is better as an expression of the public will than the haphazard hereditary method. While we are about having any kind of democracy, let it be rational democracy. But if we are to have any kind of oligarchy, let it be irrational oligarchy. Then at least we shall be ruled by men.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "G. Chesterton",
        "slug": "g-chesterton",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/g-chesterton"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Heretics",
        "slug": "heretics",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/g-chesterton/heretics"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Heretics_(book)#Chapter_XIX:_%22Slum_Novelists_and_the_Slums%22",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:35"
    },
    {
      "id": "221c9266-90c6-4348-8ccf-4d3ffb5030fb",
      "slug": "we-have-public-house",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/g-chesterton/heretics/we-have-public-house",
      "text": "We have public-house licensing laws, but not sumptuary laws. That is to say, we have laws against the festivity and hospitality of the poor, but no laws against the festivity and hospitality of the rich. We have laws against blasphemy—that is, against a kind of coarse and offensive speaking in which nobody but a rough and obscure man would be likely to indulge. But we have no laws against heresy—that is, against the intellectual poisoning of the whole people, in which only a prosperous and prominent man would be likely to be successful. The evil of aristocracy is not that it necessarily leads to the infliction of bad things or the suffering of sad ones; the evil of aristocracy is that it places everything in the hands of a class of people who can always inflict what they can never suffer.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "G. Chesterton",
        "slug": "g-chesterton",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/g-chesterton"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Heretics",
        "slug": "heretics",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/g-chesterton/heretics"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "society",
          "slug": "society",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/society"
        },
        {
          "name": "justice",
          "slug": "justice",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/justice"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Heretics_(book)#Chapter_XIX:_%22Slum_Novelists_and_the_Slums%22",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:35"
    },
    {
      "id": "ef0dec93-0bc8-4bb9-aa3b-1f901e083f25",
      "slug": "an-enormous-amount",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/g-chesterton/heretics/an-enormous-amount",
      "text": "An enormous amount of modern ingenuity is expended on finding defences for the indefensible conduct of the powerful. As I have said above, these defences generally exhibit themselves most emphatically in the form of appeals to physical science. And of all the forms in which science, or pseudo-science, has come to the rescue of the rich and stupid, there is none so singular as the singular invention of the theory of races.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "G. Chesterton",
        "slug": "g-chesterton",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/g-chesterton"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Heretics",
        "slug": "heretics",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/g-chesterton/heretics"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Heretics_(book)#Chapter_XIII:_%22Celts_and_Celtophiles%22",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:34"
    },
    {
      "id": "a689b0c6-da31-4748-b51f-741aac14165c",
      "slug": "that-the-human",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-stuart-mill/autobiography/that-the-human",
      "text": "That the human mind has a certain order of possible progress, in which some things must precede others, an order which governments and public instructors can modify to some, but not to an unlimited extent: that all questions of political institutions are relative, not absolute, and that different stages of human progress not only will have, but ought to have, different institutions: That government is always either in the hands, or passing into the hands, of whatever is the strongest power in society, and that what this power is, does not depend on institutions, but institutions on it: That any general theory or philosophy of politics supposes a previous theory of human progress, and that this is the same thing with a philosophy of history.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "John Stuart Mill",
        "slug": "john-stuart-mill",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-stuart-mill"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Autobiography",
        "slug": "autobiography",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-stuart-mill/autobiography"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 162,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill#Ch._5:_A_Crisis_in_My_Mental_History._One_Stage_Onward.",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:31"
    },
    {
      "id": "5541dc54-83e6-4d2e-b24b-60a4195b64a5",
      "slug": "i-thought-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-stuart-mill/autobiography/i-thought-the",
      "text": "I thought the predominance of the aristocratic classes, the noble and the rich, in the English Constitution, an evil worth any struggle to get rid of; not on account of taxes, or any such comparatively small inconvenience, but as the great demoralizing agency in the country. Demoralizing, first, because it made the conduct of the government an example of gross public immorality, through the predominance of private over public interests in the State, and the abuse of the powers of legislation for the advantage of classes. Secondly, and in a still greater degree, because the respect of the multitude always attaching itself principally to that which, in the existing state of society, is the chief passport to power; and under English institutions, riches, hereditary or acquired, being the almost exclusive source of political importance; riches, and the signs of riches, were almost the only things really respected, and the life of the people was mainly devoted to the pursuit of them. I thought, that while the higher and richer classes held the power of government, the instruction and improvement of the mass of the people were contrary to the self-interest of those classes, because tending to render the people more powerful for throwing off the yoke: but if the democracy obtained a large, and perhaps the principal, share in the governing power, it would become the interest of the opulent classes to promote their education, in order to ward off really mischievous errors, and especially those which would lead to unjust violations of property. On these grounds I was not only as ardent as ever for democratic institutions, but earnestly hoped that Owenite, St. Simonian, and all other anti-property doctrines might spread widely among the poorer classes; not that I thought those doctrines true, or desired that they should be acted on, but in order that the higher classes might be made to see that they had more to fear from the poor when uneducated, than when educated.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "John Stuart Mill",
        "slug": "john-stuart-mill",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-stuart-mill"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Autobiography",
        "slug": "autobiography",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-stuart-mill/autobiography"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 171,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        },
        {
          "name": "society",
          "slug": "society",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/society"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill#Ch._5:_A_Crisis_in_My_Mental_History._One_Stage_Onward.",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:31"
    },
    {
      "id": "50fb7943-263a-4868-a894-e3d1a7f1e65d",
      "slug": "a-general-state",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-stuart-mill/on-liberty/a-general-state",
      "text": "A general State education is a mere contrivance for molding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mold in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, an aristocracy, or a majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by a natural tendency to one over the body.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "John Stuart Mill",
        "slug": "john-stuart-mill",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-stuart-mill"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "On Liberty",
        "slug": "on-liberty",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-stuart-mill/on-liberty"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "freedom",
          "slug": "freedom",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill#On_Liberty_(1859)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:30"
    },
    {
      "id": "4f6aa4d2-7b3e-4286-91bd-fab5b70f2432",
      "slug": "the-only-purpose",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-stuart-mill/on-liberty/the-only-purpose",
      "text": "The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "John Stuart Mill",
        "slug": "john-stuart-mill",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-stuart-mill"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "On Liberty",
        "slug": "on-liberty",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-stuart-mill/on-liberty"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "freedom",
          "slug": "freedom",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill#On_Liberty_(1859)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:30"
    },
    {
      "id": "39473d63-a1b2-4392-882b-52281d14b60c",
      "slug": "whatever-crushes-individuality",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-stuart-mill/on-liberty/whatever-crushes-individuality",
      "text": "Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called, and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "John Stuart Mill",
        "slug": "john-stuart-mill",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-stuart-mill"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "On Liberty",
        "slug": "on-liberty",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-stuart-mill/on-liberty"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "freedom",
          "slug": "freedom",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill#On_Liberty_(1859)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:30"
    },
    {
      "id": "a6d676bc-9e96-4d51-bf60-4ab2cc269388",
      "slug": "when-theyre-standing",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/the-carpet-people/when-theyre-standing",
      "text": "When they're standing right in front of you, kings are a kind of speech impediment.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Terry Pratchett",
        "slug": "terry-pratchett",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Carpet People",
        "slug": "the-carpet-people",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/the-carpet-people"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Terry_Pratchett#The_Carpet_People_(1971%3B_1992)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:26"
    },
    {
      "id": "672fc239-6cfd-4053-9e84-45f59a98e035",
      "slug": "keep-em-busy",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/the-carpet-people/keep-em-busy",
      "text": "Keep 'em busy. That was one of the three rules of being chief that old Grimm had passed on to him. Act confidently, never say 'I don't know,' and when all else fails, keep 'em busy.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Terry Pratchett",
        "slug": "terry-pratchett",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Carpet People",
        "slug": "the-carpet-people",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/the-carpet-people"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Terry_Pratchett#The_Carpet_People_(1971%3B_1992)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:26"
    },
    {
      "id": "241196db-630b-4655-a091-82dca5807bf1",
      "slug": "what-would-deftmenes",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/the-carpet-people/what-would-deftmenes",
      "text": "'What would Deftmenes be if we went around obeying orders all the time?'\n\n'They might be ruling the Carpet,' said Pismire.\n\n'Ha!' said Brocando, 'but the trouble about obeying orders is, it becomes a habit. And then everything depends on who's giving the orders.'",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Terry Pratchett",
        "slug": "terry-pratchett",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Carpet People",
        "slug": "the-carpet-people",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/the-carpet-people"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "freedom",
          "slug": "freedom",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Terry_Pratchett#The_Carpet_People_(1971%3B_1992)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:26"
    },
    {
      "id": "61bc68d4-c87d-4f59-ac82-53f6ab4f843d",
      "slug": "it-is-a-mistake",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/i-asimov/it-is-a-mistake",
      "text": "It is a mistake to think that because a group has suffered extreme persecution that is a sign that they are virtuous and innocent. They might be, of course, but the persecution process is no proof of that. The persecution merely shows that the persecuted group is weak. Had they been strong, then, for all we know, they might have been the persecutors.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Isaac Asimov",
        "slug": "isaac-asimov",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "I, Asimov",
        "slug": "i-asimov",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/i-asimov"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 22,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "morality",
          "slug": "morality",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/morality"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov#I._Asimov:_A_Memoir_(1994)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:24"
    },
    {
      "id": "ad11c4d2-940f-4ecf-95e6-89386a39d619",
      "slug": "for-ten-years",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/forward-the-foundation/for-ten-years",
      "text": "For ten years the Galactic Empire had been without an Emperor, but there was no indication of that fact in the way the Imperial Palace grounds were operated. Millennia of custom made the absence of an Emperor meaningless.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Isaac Asimov",
        "slug": "isaac-asimov",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Forward the Foundation",
        "slug": "forward-the-foundation",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/forward-the-foundation"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov#Forward_the_Foundation_(1993)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:23"
    },
    {
      "id": "7cabfba2-407c-4452-8520-bb9b7e37474f",
      "slug": "asceticism-among-a-ruling",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/prelude-to-foundation/asceticism-among-a-ruling",
      "text": "Asceticism among a ruling class—except for public show—is very rare.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Isaac Asimov",
        "slug": "isaac-asimov",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Prelude to Foundation",
        "slug": "prelude-to-foundation",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/prelude-to-foundation"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 295,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov#Prelude_to_Foundation_(1988)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:23"
    },
    {
      "id": "439d132c-6e88-4efe-bc27-dee28871bca3",
      "slug": "it-strikes-me-that",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/prelude-to-foundation/it-strikes-me-that",
      "text": "“It strikes me that no one could possibly want to be Emperor.”\n\n“No sane person would, I agree, but the ‘Imperial wish,’ as it is frequently called, is like a disease that, when caught, drives out sanity. And the closer you get to high office, the more likely you are to catch the disease.”",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Isaac Asimov",
        "slug": "isaac-asimov",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Prelude to Foundation",
        "slug": "prelude-to-foundation",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/prelude-to-foundation"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 404,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov#Prelude_to_Foundation_(1988)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:23"
    },
    {
      "id": "7cad6780-76ce-42f0-ad59-51e87bd242f4",
      "slug": "the-spell-of-power",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/second-foundation/the-spell-of-power",
      "text": "The spell of power never quite releases its hold.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Isaac Asimov",
        "slug": "isaac-asimov",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Second Foundation",
        "slug": "second-foundation",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/second-foundation"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov#Second_Foundation_(1953)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:22"
    },
    {
      "id": "45c3c9e2-37a5-45c1-ae00-50df9b215514",
      "slug": "it-is-well-known",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/foundation-and-empire/it-is-well-known",
      "text": "It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Isaac Asimov",
        "slug": "isaac-asimov",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Foundation and Empire",
        "slug": "foundation-and-empire",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/foundation-and-empire"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov#Foundation_and_Empire_(1952)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:22"
    },
    {
      "id": "b8817b61-938c-4b2f-84a8-530d7b3b969f",
      "slug": "korell-is-that",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/foundation/korell-is-that",
      "text": "Korell is that frequent phenomenon in history: the republic whose ruler has every attribute of the absolute monarch but the name. It therefore enjoyed the usual despotism unrestrained even by those two moderating influences in the legitimate monarchies: regal “honor” and court etiquette.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Isaac Asimov",
        "slug": "isaac-asimov",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Foundation",
        "slug": "foundation",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/foundation"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov#Foundation_(1951)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:21"
    },
    {
      "id": "b29284e5-62f2-43f3-8e1a-897401f02597",
      "slug": "that-insufferable-dull-witted",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/foundation/that-insufferable-dull-witted",
      "text": "“That insufferable, dull-witted donkey! That—”\n\nHardin broke in: “Not at all. He’s merely the product of his environment. He doesn’t understand much except that ‘I got a gun and you ain’t.’ ”",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Isaac Asimov",
        "slug": "isaac-asimov",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Foundation",
        "slug": "foundation",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/foundation"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov#Foundation_(1951)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:21"
    },
    {
      "id": "75263b64-3b96-47ef-970b-78e1df934be2",
      "slug": "inertia-our-ruling",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/foundation-and-empire/inertia-our-ruling",
      "text": "Inertia! Our ruling class knows one law; no change. Despotism! They know one rule; force. Maldistribution! They know one desire; to hold what is theirs.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Isaac Asimov",
        "slug": "isaac-asimov",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Foundation and Empire",
        "slug": "foundation-and-empire",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/foundation-and-empire"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov#Foundation_and_Empire_(1952)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:21"
    },
    {
      "id": "29327f65-7119-4794-9157-432885b83c99",
      "slug": "courtiers-dont-take",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/foundation/courtiers-dont-take",
      "text": "Courtiers don't take wagers against the king's skill. There is the deadly danger of winning.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Isaac Asimov",
        "slug": "isaac-asimov",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Foundation",
        "slug": "foundation",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/foundation"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov#Foundation_(1951)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:21"
    },
    {
      "id": "237a3469-1152-4d68-bc08-fdf4792318af",
      "slug": "well-then-arrest",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/foundation/well-then-arrest",
      "text": "Well, then, arrest him. You can accuse him of something or other afterward.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Isaac Asimov",
        "slug": "isaac-asimov",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Foundation",
        "slug": "foundation",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/foundation"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "justice",
          "slug": "justice",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/justice"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov#Foundation_(1951)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:21"
    },
    {
      "id": "9702f97b-b40d-474d-b9ba-8ecdb7a88b2c",
      "slug": "the-autarch-maintained",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/the-stars-like-dust/the-autarch-maintained",
      "text": "The Autarch maintained his indifferent calm, but a certain lack of certainty was gathering, and he did not like to experience a lack of certainty. He liked nothing which made him aware of limitations. An Autarch should have no limitations, and on Lingane he had none that natural law did not impose.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Isaac Asimov",
        "slug": "isaac-asimov",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Stars, Like Dust",
        "slug": "the-stars-like-dust",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/the-stars-like-dust"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 104,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov#The_Stars,_Like_Dust_(1951)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:20"
    },
    {
      "id": "a951f406-6639-45e9-ab8f-f4221c065493",
      "slug": "there-is-nothing",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/i-robot/there-is-nothing",
      "text": "There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Isaac Asimov",
        "slug": "isaac-asimov",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "I, Robot",
        "slug": "i-robot",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/i-robot"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 189,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "memory",
          "slug": "memory",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/memory"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov#I,_Robot_(1950)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:18"
    },
    {
      "id": "18e4c37e-9877-4c09-849d-09374dd47a66",
      "slug": "why-stephen-if",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/i-robot/why-stephen-if",
      "text": "\"Why, Stephen, if I am right, it means that the Machine is conducting our future for us not only simply in direct answer to our direct questions, but in general answer to the world situation and to human psychology as a whole. And to know that may make us unhappy and may hurt our pride. The Machine cannot, must not, make us unhappy.\n\n\"Stephen, how do we know what the ultimate good of Humanity will entail? We haven't at our disposal the infinite factors that the Machine has at its! Perhaps, to give you a not unfamiliar example, our entire technical civilization has created more unhappiness and misery than it has removed. Perhaps an agrarian or pastoral civilization, with less culture and less people would be better. If so, the Machines must move in that direction, preferably without telling us, since in our ignorant prejudices we only know that what we are used to, is good—and we would then fight change. Or perhaps a complete urbanization, or a completely caste-ridden society, or complete anarchy, is the answer. We don't know. Only the Machines know, and they are going there and taking us with them.\"\n\n\"But you are telling me, Susan, that the 'Society for Humanity' is right; and that Mankind has lost its own say in its future.\"\n\n\"It never had any, really. It was always at the mercy of economic and sociological forces it did not understand—at the whims of climate, and the fortunes of war. Now the Machines understand them; and no one can stop them, since the Machines will deal with them as they are dealing with the Society,—having, as they do, the greatest of weapons at their disposal, the absolute control of our economy.\"\n\n\"How horrible!\"\n\n\"Perhaps how wonderful! Think, that for all time, all conflicts are finally evitable. Only the Machines, from now on, are inevitable!\"",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Isaac Asimov",
        "slug": "isaac-asimov",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "I, Robot",
        "slug": "i-robot",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/i-robot"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 192,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "freedom",
          "slug": "freedom",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom"
        },
        {
          "name": "the future",
          "slug": "the-future",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-future"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov#I,_Robot_(1950)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:18"
    },
    {
      "id": "8dbae7bb-4cff-4da1-9366-a067c6a4e480",
      "slug": "whenever-a-government",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ivo-andric/the-bridge-on-the-drina/whenever-a-government",
      "text": "Whenever a government feels the need of promising peace and prosperity to its citizens by means of a proclamation, it is time to be on guard and expect the opposite.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Ivo Andric",
        "slug": "ivo-andric",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ivo-andric"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Bridge on the Drina",
        "slug": "the-bridge-on-the-drina",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ivo-andric/the-bridge-on-the-drina"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 332,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ivo_Andri%C4%87#The_Bridge_on_the_Drina_(1945)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:14"
    },
    {
      "id": "2ad0e9f4-d32a-4624-a1f2-bdc43a504022",
      "slug": "barack-and-michelle",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-w-bush/decision-points/barack-and-michelle",
      "text": "Barack and Michelle Obama arrived on the North Portico just before 10:00 a.m. Laura and I had invited them for a cup of coffee in the Blue Room, just as Bill and Hillary Clinton had done for us eight years earlier. The Obamas were in good spirits and excited about the journey ahead. Meanwhile, in the Situation Room, homeland security aides from both our teams monitored intelligence on a terrorist threat to Washington. It was a stark reminder that evil men still want to harm our country, no matter who is serving as president. After our visit, we climbed into the motorcade for the trip up Pennsylvania Avenue. I thought back to the drive I'd made with Bill Clinton eight years earlier. That day in January 2001, I could never have imagined what would unfold over my time in office. I knew some of the decisions I had made were not popular with many of my fellow citizens. But I felt satisfied that I had been willing to make the hard decisions, and I had always done what I believed was right. At the Capitol, Laura and I took our seats for the Inauguration. I marveled at the peaceful transition of power, one of the defining features of our democracy. The audience was riveted with anticipation for he swearing-in. Barack Obama had campaigned on hope, and that was what he had given many Americans. For our new president, the Inauguration was a thrilling beginning. For Laura and me, it was an end. It was another president's turn, and I was ready to go home.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George W. Bush",
        "slug": "george-w-bush",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-w-bush"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Decision Points",
        "slug": "decision-points",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-w-bush/decision-points"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 474,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_W._Bush#Decision_Points_(November_2010)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:14"
    },
    {
      "id": "e3d61bca-75f4-496d-ab72-2da7398711f1",
      "slug": "government-like-any",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/hl-mencken/minority-report/government-like-any",
      "text": "Government, like any other organism, refuses to acquiesce in its own extinction. This refusal, of course, involves the resistance to any effort to diminish its powers and prerogatives. There has been no organized effort to keep government down since Jefferson's day. Ever since then the American people have been bolstering up its powers and giving it more and more jurisdiction over their affairs. They pay for that folly in increased taxes and diminished liberties. No government as such is ever in favor of the freedom of the individual. It invariably seeks to limit that freedom, if not by overt denial, then by seeking constantly to widen its own functions.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "H.L. Mencken",
        "slug": "hl-mencken",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/hl-mencken"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Minority Report",
        "slug": "minority-report",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/hl-mencken/minority-report"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "freedom",
          "slug": "freedom",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/H._L._Mencken#Minority_Report_:_H.L._Mencken's_Notebooks_(1956)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:03"
    },
    {
      "id": "cdb1ef9c-72dc-40f4-8708-972f3aef115f",
      "slug": "the-main-thing",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/hl-mencken/minority-report/the-main-thing",
      "text": "The main thing that every political campaign in the United States demonstrates is that the politicians of all parties, despite their superficial enmities, are really members of one great brotherhood. Their principal, and indeed their sole, object is to collar public office, with all the privileges and profits that go therewith. They achieve this collaring by buying votes with other people's money. No professional politician is ever actually in favor of public economy. It is his implacable enemy, and he knows it. All professional politicians are dedicated wholeheartedly to waste and corruption. They are the enemies of every decent man.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "H.L. Mencken",
        "slug": "hl-mencken",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/hl-mencken"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Minority Report",
        "slug": "minority-report",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/hl-mencken/minority-report"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/H._L._Mencken#Minority_Report_:_H.L._Mencken's_Notebooks_(1956)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:03"
    },
    {
      "id": "c9cf1acf-7f8a-440d-a592-31e6f534a684",
      "slug": "the-state-is-not",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/hl-mencken/minority-report/the-state-is-not",
      "text": "The State is not force alone. It depends upon the credulity of man quite as much as upon his docility. Its aim is not merely to make him obey, but also to make him want to obey.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "H.L. Mencken",
        "slug": "hl-mencken",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/hl-mencken"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Minority Report",
        "slug": "minority-report",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/hl-mencken/minority-report"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 217,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/H._L._Mencken#Minority_Report_:_H.L._Mencken's_Notebooks_(1956)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:03"
    },
    {
      "id": "ac142f84-cef8-4301-acc0-653069c94009",
      "slug": "the-urge-to-save",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/hl-mencken/minority-report/the-urge-to-save",
      "text": "The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. Power is what all messiahs really seek: not the chance to serve. This is true even of the pious brethren who carry the gospel to foreign parts.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "H.L. Mencken",
        "slug": "hl-mencken",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/hl-mencken"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Minority Report",
        "slug": "minority-report",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/hl-mencken/minority-report"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "hypocrisy",
          "slug": "hypocrisy",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hypocrisy"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/H._L._Mencken#Minority_Report_:_H.L._Mencken's_Notebooks_(1956)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:03"
    },
    {
      "id": "93345064-0eab-4b60-9e5b-80a634339643",
      "slug": "government-is-actually",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/hl-mencken/minority-report/government-is-actually",
      "text": "Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent. Indeed, it would not be far wrong to describe the best as the common enemy of all decent citizens. But there will be small hope of gaining adherents to this idea so long as government is thought of as an independent and somehow super-human organism, with powers, rights, and privileges transcending those of any other human aggregation.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "H.L. Mencken",
        "slug": "hl-mencken",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/hl-mencken"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Minority Report",
        "slug": "minority-report",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/hl-mencken/minority-report"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/H._L._Mencken#Minority_Report_:_H.L._Mencken's_Notebooks_(1956)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:03"
    },
    {
      "id": "787965dc-4ddf-4dba-a6e5-8ef57051f10c",
      "slug": "no-government-is-ever",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/hl-mencken/minority-report/no-government-is-ever",
      "text": "No government is ever really in favor of so-called civil rights. It always tries to whittle them down. They are preserved under all governments, insofar as they survive at all, by special classes of fanatics, often highly dubious.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "H.L. Mencken",
        "slug": "hl-mencken",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/hl-mencken"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Minority Report",
        "slug": "minority-report",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/hl-mencken/minority-report"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "freedom",
          "slug": "freedom",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/H._L._Mencken#Minority_Report_:_H.L._Mencken's_Notebooks_(1956)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:02"
    },
    {
      "id": "3c5da595-f685-4582-9b6c-307db2466189",
      "slug": "the-welfare-of-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/resistance-rebellion-and-death/the-welfare-of-the",
      "text": "The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience. It would be easy, however, to destroy that good conscience by shouting to them: if you want the happiness of the people, let them speak out and tell what kind of happiness they want and what kind they don't want! But, in truth, the very ones who make use of such alibis know they are lies; they leave to their intellectuals on duty the chore of believing in them and of proving that religion, patriotism, and justice need for their survival the sacrifice of freedom.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Albert Camus",
        "slug": "albert-camus",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Resistance, Rebellion, and Death",
        "slug": "resistance-rebellion-and-death",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/resistance-rebellion-and-death"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "freedom",
          "slug": "freedom",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Camus#Resistance,_Rebellion,_and_Death_(1960)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:37:58"
    },
    {
      "id": "a639a5d6-fb45-4912-8e8e-2106446b7cf5",
      "slug": "alyosha-can-in-fact",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/the-rebel/alyosha-can-in-fact",
      "text": "Alyosha can, in fact, treat Ivan with compassion as a \"real simpleton.\" The latter only made an attempt at self-control and failed. Others will appear, with more serious intentions, who, on the basis of the same despairing nihilism, will insist on ruling the world. These are the Grand Inquisitors who imprison Christ and come to tell Him that His method is not correct, that universal happiness cannot be achieved by the immediate freedom of choosing between good and evil, but by the domination and unification of the world. The first step is to conquer and rule. The kingdom of heaven will, in fact, appear on earth, but it will be ruled over by men — a mere handful to begin with, who will be the Caesars, because they were the first to understand — and later, with time, by all men. The unity of all creation will be achieved by every possible means, since everything is permitted. The Grand Inquisitor is old and tired, for the knowledge he possesses is bitter. He knows that men are lazy rather than cowardly and that they prefer peace and death to the liberty of discerning between good and evil. He has pity, a cold pity, for the silent prisoner whom history endlessly deceives. He urges him to speak, to recognize his misdeeds, and, in one sense, to approve the actions of the Inquisitors and of the Caesars. But the prisoner does not speak.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Albert Camus",
        "slug": "albert-camus",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Rebel",
        "slug": "the-rebel",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/the-rebel"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "freedom",
          "slug": "freedom",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Camus#The_Rebel_(1951)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:37:57"
    },
    {
      "id": "1851227c-b084-48f0-be45-42f184682bbe",
      "slug": "every-revolutionary-ends",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/the-rebel/every-revolutionary-ends",
      "text": "Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Albert Camus",
        "slug": "albert-camus",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Rebel",
        "slug": "the-rebel",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/the-rebel"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Camus#The_Rebel_(1951)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:37:57"
    },
    {
      "id": "0bf87a15-bb80-45a0-8126-34bef9e1cadc",
      "slug": "this-is-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/the-fall/this-is-the",
      "text": "\"This is the truth,\" we say. \"You can discuss it as much as you want; we aren't interested. But in a few years there'll be the police who will show you we are right.\"",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Albert Camus",
        "slug": "albert-camus",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Fall",
        "slug": "the-fall",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/the-fall"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "truth",
          "slug": "truth",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/truth"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Camus#The_Fall_(1956)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:37:57"
    },
    {
      "id": "254a398a-ab5c-42ed-94e8-641baa9d6969",
      "slug": "the-slave-begins",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/the-rebel/the-slave-begins",
      "text": "The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Albert Camus",
        "slug": "albert-camus",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Rebel",
        "slug": "the-rebel",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/the-rebel"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "justice",
          "slug": "justice",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/justice"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Camus#The_Rebel_(1951)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:37:56"
    },
    {
      "id": "acb82a52-3c9a-4c05-9c1b-d74a443b23fd",
      "slug": "i-am-terrified",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-a-michener/the-world-is-my-home/i-am-terrified",
      "text": "I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control, common men like me are in peril.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "James A. Michener",
        "slug": "james-a-michener",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-a-michener"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The World Is My Home",
        "slug": "the-world-is-my-home",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-a-michener/the-world-is-my-home"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "religion",
          "slug": "religion",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/religion"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_A._Michener#The_World_Is_My_Home_(1991)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:37:54"
    },
    {
      "id": "b9d4e9e3-f87a-4301-b5bf-76872bb860f2",
      "slug": "it-is-difficult",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-a-michener/hawaii/it-is-difficult",
      "text": "It is difficult to be king when the gods are changing.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "James A. Michener",
        "slug": "james-a-michener",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-a-michener"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Hawaii",
        "slug": "hawaii",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-a-michener/hawaii"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "change",
          "slug": "change",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/change"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_A._Michener#Hawaii_(1959)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:37:52"
    },
    {
      "id": "a86e61ad-04c8-41d1-9259-caadc2ab8991",
      "slug": "the-authority-of-government",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-david-thoreau/civil-disobedience/the-authority-of-government",
      "text": "The authority of government, even such as I am willing to submit to — for I will cheerfully obey those who know and can do better than I, and in many things even those who neither know nor can do so well — is still an impure one: to be strictly just, it must have the sanction and consent of the governed. It can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Henry David Thoreau",
        "slug": "henry-david-thoreau",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-david-thoreau"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Civil Disobedience",
        "slug": "civil-disobedience",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-david-thoreau/civil-disobedience"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "freedom",
          "slug": "freedom",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Civil_Disobedience_(Thoreau)#Civil_Disobedience_(1849)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:37:52"
    },
    {
      "id": "fdd4b400-fdf4-48dc-9a85-bcb432244d4b",
      "slug": "when-i-converse",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-david-thoreau/civil-disobedience/when-i-converse",
      "text": "When I converse with the freest of my neighbors, I perceive that, whatever they may say about the magnitude and seriousness of the question, and their regard for the public tranquillity, the long and the short of the matter is, that they cannot spare the protection of the existing government, and they dread the consequences to their property and families of disobedience to it. For my own part, I should not like to think that I ever rely on the protection of the State. But, if I deny the authority of the State when it presents its tax-bill, it will soon take and waste all my property, and so harass me and my children without end. This is hard. This makes it impossible for a man to live honestly, and at the same time comfortably in outward respects. It will not be worth the while to accumulate property; that would be sure to go again. You must hire or squat somewhere, and raise but a small crop, and eat that soon. You must live within yourself, and depend upon yourself always tucked up and ready for a start, and not have many affairs. […] No: until I want the protection of Massachusetts to be extended to me in some distant Southern port, where my liberty is endangered, or until I am bent solely on building up an estate at home by peaceful enterprise, I can afford to refuse allegiance to Massachusetts, and her right to my property and life. It costs me less in every sense to incur the penalty of disobedience to the State than it would to obey. I should feel as if I were worth less in that case.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Henry David Thoreau",
        "slug": "henry-david-thoreau",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-david-thoreau"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Civil Disobedience",
        "slug": "civil-disobedience",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-david-thoreau/civil-disobedience"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "freedom",
          "slug": "freedom",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Civil_Disobedience_(Thoreau)#Civil_Disobedience_(1849)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:37:51"
    },
    {
      "id": "f99984a0-d22f-47f2-8048-bd06ea098c53",
      "slug": "under-a-government-which",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-david-thoreau/civil-disobedience/under-a-government-which",
      "text": "Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. The proper place to-day, the only place which Massachusetts has provided for her freer and less desponding spirits, is in her prisons, to be put out and locked out of the State by her own act, as they have already put themselves out by their principles. It is there that the fugitive slave, and the Mexican prisoner on parole, and the Indian come to plead the wrongs of his race, should find them; on that separate, but more free and honorable ground, where the State places those who are not with her, but against her — the only house in a slave State in which a free man can abide with honor. If any think that their influence would be lost there, and their voices no longer afflict the ear of the State, that they would not be as an enemy within its walls, they do not know by how much truth is stronger than error, nor how much more eloquently and effectively he can combat injustice who has experienced a little in his own person. Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight. If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose. If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.'",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Henry David Thoreau",
        "slug": "henry-david-thoreau",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-david-thoreau"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Civil Disobedience",
        "slug": "civil-disobedience",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-david-thoreau/civil-disobedience"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "freedom",
          "slug": "freedom",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        },
        {
          "name": "justice",
          "slug": "justice",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/justice"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Civil_Disobedience_(Thoreau)#Civil_Disobedience_(1849)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:37:51"
    },
    {
      "id": "f23de88c-d1db-401b-8bd2-c839ed21a6ec",
      "slug": "all-men-recognize",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-david-thoreau/civil-disobedience/all-men-recognize",
      "text": "All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Henry David Thoreau",
        "slug": "henry-david-thoreau",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-david-thoreau"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Civil Disobedience",
        "slug": "civil-disobedience",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-david-thoreau/civil-disobedience"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "freedom",
          "slug": "freedom",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Civil_Disobedience_(Thoreau)#Civil_Disobedience_(1849)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:37:51"
    },
    {
      "id": "d1af47b6-2f74-47fa-8513-956fbfdfccb0",
      "slug": "how-shall-he-ever",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-david-thoreau/civil-disobedience/how-shall-he-ever",
      "text": "How shall he ever know well what he is and does as an officer of the government, or as a man, until he is obliged to consider whether he shall treat me, his neighbor, for whom he has respect, as a neighbor and well-disposed man, or as a maniac and disturber of the peace, and see if he can get over this obstruction to his neighborliness without a ruder and more impetuous thought or speech corresponding with his action?",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Henry David Thoreau",
        "slug": "henry-david-thoreau",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-david-thoreau"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Civil Disobedience",
        "slug": "civil-disobedience",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-david-thoreau/civil-disobedience"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "morality",
          "slug": "morality",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/morality"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Civil_Disobedience_(Thoreau)#Civil_Disobedience_(1849)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:37:51"
    },
    {
      "id": "a13d7343-4b7d-43e4-a837-f07a7f12e09a",
      "slug": "under-a-government",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-david-thoreau/civil-disobedience/under-a-government",
      "text": "Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison... the only house in a slave State in which a free man can abide with honor.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Henry David Thoreau",
        "slug": "henry-david-thoreau",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-david-thoreau"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Civil Disobedience",
        "slug": "civil-disobedience",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-david-thoreau/civil-disobedience"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "freedom",
          "slug": "freedom",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom"
        },
        {
          "name": "justice",
          "slug": "justice",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/justice"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau#Civil_Disobedience_(1849)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:37:51"
    },
    {
      "id": "9434494d-da03-422a-88a3-c7c9210c6de0",
      "slug": "the-progress-from",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-david-thoreau/civil-disobedience/the-progress-from",
      "text": "The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Henry David Thoreau",
        "slug": "henry-david-thoreau",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-david-thoreau"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Civil Disobedience",
        "slug": "civil-disobedience",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-david-thoreau/civil-disobedience"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau#Civil_Disobedience_(1849)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:37:51"
    },
    {
      "id": "90c5e46a-d68d-433c-8890-13a4f6017518",
      "slug": "i-meet-this",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-david-thoreau/civil-disobedience/i-meet-this",
      "text": "I meet this American government, or its representative, the State government, directly, and face to face, once a year — no more — in the person of its tax-gatherer; this is the only mode in which a man situated as I am necessarily meets it; and it then says distinctly, Recognize me; and the simplest, the most effectual, and, in the present posture of affairs, the indispensablest mode of treating with it on this head, of expressing your little satisfaction with and love for it, is to deny it then.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Henry David Thoreau",
        "slug": "henry-david-thoreau",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-david-thoreau"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Civil Disobedience",
        "slug": "civil-disobedience",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-david-thoreau/civil-disobedience"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Civil_Disobedience_(Thoreau)#Civil_Disobedience_(1849)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:37:51"
    },
    {
      "id": "7f304480-8f67-480c-888e-79283711c953",
      "slug": "is-a-democracy",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-david-thoreau/civil-disobedience/is-a-democracy",
      "text": "Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towards recognizing and organizing the rights of man? There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly. I please myself with imagining a State at least which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor; which even would not think it inconsistent with its own repose if a few were to live aloof from it, not meddling with it, nor embraced by it, who fulfilled all the duties of neighbors and fellow-men. A State which bore this kind of fruit, and suffered it to drop off as fast as it ripened, would prepare the way for a still more perfect and glorious State, which also I have imagined, but not yet anywhere seen.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Henry David Thoreau",
        "slug": "henry-david-thoreau",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-david-thoreau"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Civil Disobedience",
        "slug": "civil-disobedience",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-david-thoreau/civil-disobedience"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "freedom",
          "slug": "freedom",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau#Civil_Disobedience_(1849)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:37:51"
    },
    {
      "id": "5ac20efa-08d2-48f1-bc45-50ecd2362b44",
      "slug": "i-saw-that-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-david-thoreau/civil-disobedience/i-saw-that-the",
      "text": "I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it did not know its friends from its foes, and I lost all my remaining respect for it, and pitied it. Thus the State never intentionally confronts a man's sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses. It is not armed with superior wit or honesty, but with superior physical strength. I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest. What force has a multitude? They only can force me who obey a higher law than I. They force me to become like themselves. I do not hear of men being forced to have this way or that by masses of men.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Henry David Thoreau",
        "slug": "henry-david-thoreau",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-david-thoreau"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Civil Disobedience",
        "slug": "civil-disobedience",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-david-thoreau/civil-disobedience"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "freedom",
          "slug": "freedom",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Civil_Disobedience_(Thoreau)#Civil_Disobedience_(1849)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:37:51"
    },
    {
      "id": "4465b1b5-88d7-472c-bce8-85217685dd12",
      "slug": "i-am-as-desirous",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-david-thoreau/civil-disobedience/i-am-as-desirous",
      "text": "I am as desirous of being a good neighbor as I am of being a bad subject.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Henry David Thoreau",
        "slug": "henry-david-thoreau",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-david-thoreau"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Civil Disobedience",
        "slug": "civil-disobedience",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-david-thoreau/civil-disobedience"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau#Civil_Disobedience_(1849)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:37:51"
    },
    {
      "id": "248d6706-0dfc-4e1b-b7d4-17ca1a68cb1e",
      "slug": "a-very-few",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-david-thoreau/civil-disobedience/a-very-few",
      "text": "A very few, as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the great sense, and men, serve the State with their consciences also, and so necessarily resist it for the most part; and they are commonly treated by it as enemies.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Henry David Thoreau",
        "slug": "henry-david-thoreau",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-david-thoreau"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Civil Disobedience",
        "slug": "civil-disobedience",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-david-thoreau/civil-disobedience"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "morality",
          "slug": "morality",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/morality"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau#Civil_Disobedience_(1849)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:37:51"
    },
    {
      "id": "20bc350b-be80-45cf-a00a-98c8afb0848f",
      "slug": "i-heartily-accept",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-david-thoreau/civil-disobedience/i-heartily-accept",
      "text": "I heartily accept the motto, \"That government is best which governs least\"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe — \"That government is best which governs not at all\"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Henry David Thoreau",
        "slug": "henry-david-thoreau",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-david-thoreau"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Civil Disobedience",
        "slug": "civil-disobedience",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-david-thoreau/civil-disobedience"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau#Civil_Disobedience_(1849)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:37:51"
    },
    {
      "id": "1b70ead6-c36c-41df-be00-7d92bba408d8",
      "slug": "i-saw-that",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-david-thoreau/civil-disobedience/i-saw-that",
      "text": "I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it did not know its friends from its foes, and I lost all my remaining respect for it, and pitied it. Thus the state never intentionally confronts a man's sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses. It is not armed with superior wit or honesty, but with superior physical strength. I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest. What force has a multitude? They only can force me who obey a higher law than I. They force me to become like themselves. I do not hear of men being forced to live this way or that by masses of men. What sort of life were that to live? When I meet a government which says to me, ‘Your money or your life,’ why should I be in haste to give it my money? It may be in a great strait, and not know what to do: I cannot help that. It must help itself; do as I do. It is not worth the while to snivel about it. I am not responsible for the successful working of the machinery of society. I am not the son of the engineer. I perceive that, when an acorn and a chestnut fall side by side, the one does not remain inert to make way for the other, but both obey their own laws, and spring and grow and flourish as best they can, till one, perchance, overshadows and destroys the other. If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Henry David Thoreau",
        "slug": "henry-david-thoreau",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-david-thoreau"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Civil Disobedience",
        "slug": "civil-disobedience",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-david-thoreau/civil-disobedience"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "freedom",
          "slug": "freedom",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau#Civil_Disobedience_(1849)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:37:51"
    },
    {
      "id": "15a6266a-3c4c-46be-8396-d61a36a73a3d",
      "slug": "it-is-for",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-david-thoreau/civil-disobedience/it-is-for",
      "text": "It is for no particular item in the tax-bill that I refuse to pay it. I simply wish to refuse allegiance to the State, to withdraw and stand aloof from it effectually. I do not care to trace the course of my dollar, if I could, till it buys a man or a musket to shoot one with — the dollar is innocent — but I am concerned to trace the effects of my allegiance. In fact, I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make what use and get what advantage of her I can, as is usual in such cases.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Henry David Thoreau",
        "slug": "henry-david-thoreau",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-david-thoreau"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Civil Disobedience",
        "slug": "civil-disobedience",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-david-thoreau/civil-disobedience"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Civil_Disobedience_(Thoreau)#Civil_Disobedience_(1849)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:37:51"
    },
    {
      "id": "157d184c-e20a-419c-b3d1-5230aa1137cb",
      "slug": "if-a-thousand",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-david-thoreau/civil-disobedience/if-a-thousand",
      "text": "If a thousand [citizens] were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Henry David Thoreau",
        "slug": "henry-david-thoreau",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-david-thoreau"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Civil Disobedience",
        "slug": "civil-disobedience",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-david-thoreau/civil-disobedience"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau#Civil_Disobedience_(1849)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:37:51"
    },
    {
      "id": "100f85fa-0c5e-4033-9257-a6237252eae3",
      "slug": "the-broadest-and",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-david-thoreau/civil-disobedience/the-broadest-and",
      "text": "The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it. The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur. Those who, while they disapprove of the character and measures of a government, yield to it their allegiance and support are undoubtedly its most conscientious supporters, and so frequently the most serious obstacles to reform. Some are petitioning the State to dissolve the Union,(1) to disregard the requisitions of the President. Why do they not dissolve it themselves — the union between themselves and the State — and refuse to pay their quota into its treasury? Do not they stand in the same relation to the State, that the State does to the Union? And have not the same reasons prevented the State from resisting the Union, which have prevented them from resisting the State?",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Henry David Thoreau",
        "slug": "henry-david-thoreau",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-david-thoreau"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Civil Disobedience",
        "slug": "civil-disobedience",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-david-thoreau/civil-disobedience"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Civil_Disobedience_(Thoreau)#Civil_Disobedience_(1849)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:37:51"
    },
    {
      "id": "718d6aa4-dfb5-4784-82be-0f956b72eff6",
      "slug": "for-each-new",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/karl-marx/the-german-ideology/for-each-new",
      "text": "For each new class which puts itself in the place of one ruling before it, is compelled, merely in order to carry through its aim, to represent its interests the common interest of all the members of society, that is, sality, and represent them as the only rational, universally valid ones. The class making a revolution appears from the very start, if only because it is opposed to a class, not as a class but as the representative of the whole of society; it appears as the whole mass of society confronting the one ruling class.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Karl Marx",
        "slug": "karl-marx",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/karl-marx"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The German Ideology",
        "slug": "the-german-ideology",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/karl-marx/the-german-ideology"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        },
        {
          "name": "society",
          "slug": "society",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/society"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Karl_Marx#The_German_Ideology_(1845-1846)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:37:49"
    },
    {
      "id": "47f1d480-595e-49d0-838a-60afb55aad34",
      "slug": "my-kind-of-loyalty",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain/a-connecticut-yankee-in-king-arthurs-court/my-kind-of-loyalty",
      "text": "My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death. To be loyal to rags, to shout for rags, to worship rags, to die for rags—that is a loyalty of unreason, it is pure animal; it belongs to monarchy, was invented by monarchy; let monarchy keep it. I was from Connecticut, whose Constitution declares \"that all political power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority and instituted for their benefit; and that they have at all times an undeniable and indefeasible right to alter their form of government in such a manner as they may think expedient.\"\n\nUnder that gospel, the citizen who thinks he sees that the commonwealth's political clothes are worn out, and yet holds his peace and does not agitate for a new suit, is disloyal; he is a traitor. That he may be the only one who thinks he sees this decay, does not excuse him; it is his duty to agitate anyway, and it is the duty of the others to vote him down if they do not see the matter as he does.\n\nAnd now here I was, in a country where a right to say how the country should be governed was restricted to six persons in each thousand of its population. For the nine hundred and ninety-four to express dissatisfaction with the regnant system and propose to change it, would have made the whole six shudder as one man, it would have been so disloyal, so dishonorable, such putrid black treason. So to speak, I was become a stockholder in a corporation where nine hundred and ninety-four of the members furnished all the money and did all the work, and the other six elected themselves a permanent board of direction and took all the dividends. It seemed to me that what the nine hundred and ninety-four dupes needed was a new deal.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Mark Twain",
        "slug": "mark-twain",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court",
        "slug": "a-connecticut-yankee-in-king-arthurs-court",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain/a-connecticut-yankee-in-king-arthurs-court"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        },
        {
          "name": "homeland",
          "slug": "homeland",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/homeland"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Connecticut_Yankee_in_King_Arthur's_Court#Quotes",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:37:48"
    },
    {
      "id": "f9073c08-8e4f-4c85-98ba-b3c47483177c",
      "slug": "all-kings-is-mostly",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain/the-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn/all-kings-is-mostly",
      "text": "All kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Mark Twain",
        "slug": "mark-twain",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn",
        "slug": "the-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain/the-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn#Chapter_23",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:37:47"
    },
    {
      "id": "575b24e6-e57c-4469-bf76-c76525d8bba1",
      "slug": "kings-is-kings",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain/the-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn/kings-is-kings",
      "text": "Kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they’re a mighty ornery lot. It’s the way they’re raised.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Mark Twain",
        "slug": "mark-twain",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn",
        "slug": "the-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain/the-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn#Chapter_23",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:37:47"
    },
    {
      "id": "e0af8938-3ef5-45ad-bff8-b389ee370796",
      "slug": "you-cannot-have",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw/major-barbara/you-cannot-have",
      "text": "You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Bernard Shaw",
        "slug": "george-bernard-shaw",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Major Barbara",
        "slug": "major-barbara",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw/major-barbara"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "morality",
          "slug": "morality",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/morality"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw#Major_Barbara_(1905)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:32:35"
    },
    {
      "id": "ca151312-83b4-4e41-9787-ffb12c197ced",
      "slug": "expressive-signs-of-what",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/a-tale-of-two-cities/expressive-signs-of-what",
      "text": "Expressive signs of what made them poor, were not wanting; the tax for the state, the tax for the church, the tax for the lord, tax local and tax general, were to be paid here and to be paid there, according to solemn inscription in the little village, until the wonder was, that there was any village left unswallowed.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Charles Dickens",
        "slug": "charles-dickens",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Tale of Two Cities",
        "slug": "a-tale-of-two-cities",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/a-tale-of-two-cities"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "society",
          "slug": "society",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/society"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Tale_of_Two_Cities#Chapter_VIII_-_Monseigneur_in_the_Country",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:32:32"
    },
    {
      "id": "87577f9e-3546-49ed-8c2f-7fe538350edf",
      "slug": "repression-is-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/a-tale-of-two-cities/repression-is-the",
      "text": "\"Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery, my friend,\" observed the Marquis, \"will keep the dogs obedient to the whip, as long as this roof,\" looking up to it, \"shuts out the sky.\"",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Charles Dickens",
        "slug": "charles-dickens",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Tale of Two Cities",
        "slug": "a-tale-of-two-cities",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/a-tale-of-two-cities"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "fear",
          "slug": "fear",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Tale_of_Two_Cities#Chapter_IX_-_The_Gorgon's_Head",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:32:32"
    },
    {
      "id": "356f2e04-a892-4632-86ca-24d543204422",
      "slug": "we-were-so-robbed",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/a-tale-of-two-cities/we-were-so-robbed",
      "text": "\"'We were so robbed by that man who stands there, as all we common dogs are by those superior Beings — taxed by him without mercy, obliged to work for him without pay, obliged to grind our corn at his mill, obliged to feed scores of his tame birds on our wretched crops, and forbidden for our lives to keep a single tame bird of our own, pillaged and plundered to that degree that when we chanced to have a bit of meat, we ate it in fear, with the doors barred and the shutters closed, that his people should not see it and take it from us — I say, we were so robbed, and hunted, and were made so poor, that our father told us it was a dreadful thing to bring a child into the world, and that what we should most pray for, was, that our women might be barren and our miserable race die out!'\"",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Charles Dickens",
        "slug": "charles-dickens",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "A Tale of Two Cities",
        "slug": "a-tale-of-two-cities",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/a-tale-of-two-cities"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "society",
          "slug": "society",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/society"
        },
        {
          "name": "justice",
          "slug": "justice",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/justice"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Tale_of_Two_Cities#Chapter_X_-_The_Substance_of_the_Shadow",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:32:32"
    },
    {
      "id": "f870839e-6c82-4b9f-8d8f-8382cfa3c7a1",
      "slug": "he-had-only",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm/he-had-only",
      "text": "He had only one criticism, he said, to make of Mr. Pilkington's excellent and neighbourly speech. Mr. Pilkington had referred throughout to \"Animal Farm.\" He could not of course know—for he, Napoleon, was only now for the first time announcing it—that the name \"Animal Farm\" had been abolished. Henceforward the farm was to be known as \"The Manor Farm\"—which, he believed, was its correct and original name.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Animal Farm",
        "slug": "animal-farm",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Animal_Farm#Chapter_10",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:32:31"
    },
    {
      "id": "f349a3ce-3826-4b49-b651-ec5c87973a5b",
      "slug": "somehow-it-seemed",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm/somehow-it-seemed",
      "text": "Somehow it seemed as though the farm had grown richer without making the animals themselves any richer — except, of course, for the pigs and the dogs. Perhaps this was partly because there were so many pigs and so many dogs. It was not that these creatures did not work, after their fashion. There was, as Squealer was never tired of explaining, endless work in the supervision and organisation of the farm. Much of this work was of a kind that the other animals were too ignorant to understand.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Animal Farm",
        "slug": "animal-farm",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Animal_Farm#Chapter_10",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:32:31"
    },
    {
      "id": "ebd32928-721b-4d2f-b03d-d5c046a6e8d0",
      "slug": "what-is-that",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm/what-is-that",
      "text": "\"What is that gun firing for?\" said Boxer.\n\n\"To celebrate our victory!\" cried Squealer.\n\n\"What victory?\" said Boxer. His knees were bleeding, he had lost a shoe and split his hoof, and a dozen pellets had lodged themselves in his hind leg.\n\n\"What victory, comrade? Have we not driven the enemy off our soil—the sacred soil of Animal Farm?\"\n\n\"But they have destroyed the windmill. And we had worked on it for two years!\"\n\n\"What matter? We will build another windmill. We will build six windmills if we feel like it. You do not appreciate, comrade, the mighty thing that we have done. The enemy was in occupation of this very ground that we stand upon. And now—thanks to the leadership of Comrade Napoleon—we have won every inch of it back again!\"\n\n\"Then we have won back what we had before,\" said Boxer.\n\n\"That is our victory,\" said Squealer.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Animal Farm",
        "slug": "animal-farm",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "lies",
          "slug": "lies",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/lies"
        },
        {
          "name": "success and failure",
          "slug": "success-and-failure",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/success-and-failure"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Animal_Farm#Chapter_8",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:32:31"
    },
    {
      "id": "e6d45649-2992-461d-97d4-7d615d325f52",
      "slug": "for-the-time",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm/for-the-time",
      "text": "For the time being, certainly, it had been found necessary to make a readjustment of rations (Squealer always spoke of it as a \"readjustment,\" never as a \"reduction\"), but in comparison with the days of Jones, the improvement was enormous. Reading out the figures in a shrill, rapid voice, he proved to them in detail that they had more oats, more hay, more turnips than they had had in Jones's day, that they worked shorter hours, that their drinking water was of better quality, that they lived longer, that a larger proportion of their young ones survived infancy, and that they had more straw in their stalls and suffered less from fleas. The animals believed every word of it. Truth to tell, Jones and all he stood for had almost faded out of their memories. They knew that life nowadays was harsh and bare, that they were often hungry and often cold, and that they were usually working when they were not asleep. But doubtless it had been worse in the old days. They were glad to believe so. Besides, in those days they had been slaves and now they were free, and that made all the difference, as Squealer did not fail to point out.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Animal Farm",
        "slug": "animal-farm",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        },
        {
          "name": "lies",
          "slug": "lies",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/lies"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Animal_Farm#Chapter_9",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:32:31"
    },
    {
      "id": "e1ae0b2c-7983-453b-8e1a-1d694c3a7465",
      "slug": "a-few-days",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm/a-few-days",
      "text": "A few days later, when the terror caused by the executions had died down, some of the animals remembered--or thought they remembered--that the Sixth Commandment decreed \"No animal shall kill any other animal.\" And though no one cared to mention it in the hearing of the pigs or the dogs, it was felt that the killings which had taken place did not square with this. Clover asked Benjamin to read her the Sixth Commandment, and when Benjamin, as usual, said that he refused to meddle in such matters, she fetched Muriel. Muriel read the Commandment for her. It ran: \"No animal shall kill any other animal WITHOUT CAUSE.\" Somehow or other, the last two words had slipped out of the animals' memory. But they saw now that the Commandment had not been violated; for clearly there was good reason for killing the traitors who had leagued themselves with Snowball.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Animal Farm",
        "slug": "animal-farm",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        },
        {
          "name": "lies",
          "slug": "lies",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/lies"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Animal_Farm#Chapter_8",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:32:31"
    },
    {
      "id": "e0877035-24b6-4425-a486-dc6e99b5ae6c",
      "slug": "twelve-voices-were",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm/twelve-voices-were",
      "text": "Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Animal Farm",
        "slug": "animal-farm",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Animal_Farm#Chapter_10",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:32:31"
    },
    {
      "id": "d83349db-f100-4dc8-8d37-493a883a38de",
      "slug": "four-legs-good-two",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm/four-legs-good-two",
      "text": "Four legs good, two legs better!",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Animal Farm",
        "slug": "animal-farm",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        },
        {
          "name": "hypocrisy",
          "slug": "hypocrisy",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hypocrisy"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Animal_Farm#Chapter_10",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:32:31"
    },
    {
      "id": "c43ba313-d1c6-40c3-90bc-f0e7e84f4caa",
      "slug": "but-by-and",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm/but-by-and",
      "text": "But by and large the animals enjoyed these celebrations. They found it comforting to be reminded that, after all, they were truly their own masters and that the work they did was for their own benefit. So that, what with the songs, the processions, Squealer's lists of figures, the thunder of the gun, the crowing of the cockerel, and the fluttering of the flag, they were able to forget that their bellies were empty, at least part of the time.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Animal Farm",
        "slug": "animal-farm",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        },
        {
          "name": "illusions",
          "slug": "illusions",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/illusions"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Animal_Farm#Chapter_9",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:32:31"
    },
    {
      "id": "baf321f7-0e63-494b-b73e-ead2fa348e98",
      "slug": "it-was-a-pig",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm/it-was-a-pig",
      "text": "It was a pig walking on his hind legs.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Animal Farm",
        "slug": "animal-farm",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Animal_Farm#Chapter_10",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:32:31"
    },
    {
      "id": "a71b883c-b58c-4f46-8da8-3b335de5afae",
      "slug": "but-a-few",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm/but-a-few",
      "text": "But a few days later Muriel, reading over the Seven Commandments to herself, noticed that there was yet another of them which the animals had remembered wrong. They had thought the Fifth Commandment was \"No animal shall drink alcohol,\" but there were two words that they had forgotten. Actually the Commandment read: \"No animal shall drink alcohol TO EXCESS.\"",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Animal Farm",
        "slug": "animal-farm",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "lies",
          "slug": "lies",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/lies"
        },
        {
          "name": "hypocrisy",
          "slug": "hypocrisy",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hypocrisy"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Animal_Farm#Chapter_8",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:32:31"
    },
    {
      "id": "9721ba0a-3faa-48e9-b41a-3c6950e2df7d",
      "slug": "napoleon-was-now",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm/napoleon-was-now",
      "text": "Napoleon was now never spoken of simply as \"Napoleon.\" He was always referred to in formal style as \"our Leader, Comrade Napoleon,\" and this pigs liked to invent for him such titles as Father of All Animals, Terror of Mankind, Protector of the Sheep-fold, Ducklings' Friend, and the like. In his speeches, Squealer would talk with the tears rolling down his cheeks of Napoleon's wisdom, the goodness of his heart, and the deep love he bore to all animals everywhere, even and especially the unhappy animals who still lived in ignorance and slavery on other farms. It had become usual to give Napoleon the credit for every successful achievement and every stroke of good fortune. You would often hear one hen remark to another, \"Under the guidance of our Leader, Comrade Napoleon, I have laid five eggs in six days\"; or two cows, enjoying a drink at the pool, would exclaim, \"Thanks to the leadership of Comrade Napoleon, how excellent this water tastes!\"",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Animal Farm",
        "slug": "animal-farm",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Animal_Farm#Chapter_8",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:32:31"
    },
    {
      "id": "95795ca6-7a8a-4454-a433-fde6e4148a83",
      "slug": "and-so-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm/and-so-the",
      "text": "And so the tale of confessions and executions went on, until there was a pile of corpses lying before Napoleon's feet and the air was heavy with the smell of blood, which had been unknown there since the expulsion of Jones.When it was all over, the remaining animals, except for the pigs and dogs, crept away in a body. They were shaken and miserable. They did not know which was more shocking--the treachery of the animals who had leagued themselves with Snowball, or the cruel retribution they had just witnessed. In the old days there had often been scenes of bloodshed equally terrible, but it seemed to all of them that it was far worse now that it was happening among themselves. Since Jones had left the farm, until today, no animal had killed another animal.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Animal Farm",
        "slug": "animal-farm",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "crime",
          "slug": "crime",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/crime"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Animal_Farm#Chapter_7",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:32:31"
    },
    {
      "id": "6dd3047f-e10b-4e18-93dd-1181e06397ea",
      "slug": "but-if-there",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm/but-if-there",
      "text": "But if there were hardships to be borne, they were partly offset by the fact that life nowadays had a greater dignity than it had had before. There were more songs, more speeches, more processions. Napoleon had commanded that once a week there should be held something called a Spontaneous Demonstration, the object of which was to celebrate the struggles and triumphs of Animal Farm. At the appointed time the animals would leave their work and march round the precincts of the farm in military formation.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Animal Farm",
        "slug": "animal-farm",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Animal_Farm#Chapter_9",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:32:31"
    },
    {
      "id": "5b9a186e-1289-4d71-ba3e-fcc8cdf973d8",
      "slug": "about-this-time",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm/about-this-time",
      "text": "About this time there occurred a strange incident which hardly anyone was able to understand. One night at about twelve o'clock there was a loud crash in the yard, and the animals rushed out of their stalls. It was a moonlit night. At the foot of the end wall of the big barn, where the Seven Commandments were written, there lay a ladder broken in two pieces. Squealer, temporarily stunned, was sprawling beside it, and near at hand there lay a lantern, a paint-brush, and an overturned pot of white paint. The dogs immediately made a ring round Squealer, and escorted him back to the farmhouse as soon as he was able to walk. None of the animals could form any idea as to what this meant, except old Benjamin, who nodded his muzzle with a knowing air, and seemed to understand, but would say nothing.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Animal Farm",
        "slug": "animal-farm",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "lies",
          "slug": "lies",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/lies"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Animal_Farm#Chapter_8",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:32:31"
    },
    {
      "id": "5753b9b7-a59c-4084-a49e-8d251a1da702",
      "slug": "all-animals-are",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm/all-animals-are",
      "text": "ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL, BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Animal Farm",
        "slug": "animal-farm",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        },
        {
          "name": "hypocrisy",
          "slug": "hypocrisy",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hypocrisy"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Animal_Farm#Chapter_10",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:32:31"
    },
    {
      "id": "3bae0912-647e-484b-a282-d28bbe3070fd",
      "slug": "as-clover-looked",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm/as-clover-looked",
      "text": "As Clover looked down the hillside her eyes filled with tears. If she could have spoken her thoughts, it would have been to say that this was not what they had aimed at when they had set themselves years ago to work for the overthrow of the human race. These scenes of terror and slaughter were not what they had looked forward to on that night when old Major first stirred them to rebellion. If she herself had had any picture of the future, it had been of a society of animals set free from hunger and the whip, all equal, each working according to his capacity, the strong protecting the weak, as she had protected the lost brood of ducklings with her foreleg on the night of Major's speech. Instead--she did not know why--they had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you had to watch your comrades torn to pieces after confessing to shocking crimes. There was no thought of rebellion or disobedience in her mind. She knew that, even as things were, they were far better off than they had been in the days of Jones, and that before all else it was needful to prevent the return of the human beings. Whatever happened she would remain faithful, work hard, carry out the orders that were given to her, and accept the leadership of Napoleon. But still, it was not for this that she and all the other animals had hoped and toiled.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Animal Farm",
        "slug": "animal-farm",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        },
        {
          "name": "disappointment",
          "slug": "disappointment",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/disappointment"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Animal_Farm#Chapter_7",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:32:31"
    },
    {
      "id": "21fe02cd-626d-44fe-8deb-dfffb7db70a6",
      "slug": "meanwhile-life-was",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm/meanwhile-life-was",
      "text": "Meanwhile life was hard. The winter was as cold as the last one had been, and food was even shorter. Once again all rations were reduced, except those of the pigs and the dogs. A too rigid equality in rations, Squealer explained, would have been contrary to the principles of Animalism. In any case he had no difficulty in proving to the other animals that they were NOT in reality short of food, whatever the appearances might be.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Animal Farm",
        "slug": "animal-farm",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "lies",
          "slug": "lies",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/lies"
        },
        {
          "name": "hypocrisy",
          "slug": "hypocrisy",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hypocrisy"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Animal_Farm#Chapter_9",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:32:31"
    },
    {
      "id": "d6154c00-1f20-4e9e-be4d-f617fd2d8b18",
      "slug": "whenever-anything-went",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm/whenever-anything-went",
      "text": "Whenever anything went wrong it became usual to attribute it to Snowball. If a window was broken or a drain was blocked up, someone was certain to say that Snowball had come in the night and done it, and when the key of the store-shed was lost, the whole farm was convinced that Snowball had thrown it down the well. Curiously enough, they went on believing this even after the mislaid key was found under a sack of meal.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Animal Farm",
        "slug": "animal-farm",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "lies",
          "slug": "lies",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/lies"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Animal_Farm#Chapter_7",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:32:30"
    },
    {
      "id": "d3fd1b92-b0b7-49d9-9ae6-f1d7bd871dce",
      "slug": "it-was-about",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm/it-was-about",
      "text": "It was about this time that the pigs suddenly moved into the farmhouse and took up their residence there. Again the animals seemed to remember that a resolution against this had been passed in the early days, and again Squealer was able to convince them that this was not the case. It was absolutely necessary, he said, that the pigs, who were the brains of the farm, should have a quiet place to work in. It was also more suited to the dignity of the Leader (for of late he had taken to speaking of Napoleon under the title of \"Leader\") to live in a house than in a mere sty.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Animal Farm",
        "slug": "animal-farm",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "lies",
          "slug": "lies",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/lies"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Animal_Farm#Chapter_6",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:32:30"
    },
    {
      "id": "c097f97e-a77b-48ed-82de-81ae206e86ff",
      "slug": "is-it-not",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm/is-it-not",
      "text": "Is it not crystal clear, then, comrades, that all the evils of this life of ours spring from the tyranny of human beings? Only get rid of Man, and the produce of our labour would be our own. Almost overnight we could become rich and free. What then must we do? Why, work night and day, body and soul, for the overthrow of the human race! That is my message to you, comrades: Rebellion!",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Animal Farm",
        "slug": "animal-farm",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "freedom",
          "slug": "freedom",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Animal_Farm#Chapter_1",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:32:30"
    },
    {
      "id": "bbac8450-afdc-4659-a864-ff7f1a0ea6f1",
      "slug": "the-mystery-of-where",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm/the-mystery-of-where",
      "text": "The mystery of where the milk went to was soon cleared up. It was mixed every day into the pigs' mash. The early apples were now ripening, and the grass of the orchard was littered with windfalls. The animals had assumed as a matter of course that these would be shared out equally; one day, however, the order went forth that all the windfalls were to be collected and brought to the harness-room for the use of the pigs. At this some of the other animals murmured, but it was no use. All the pigs were in full agreement on this point, even Snowball and Napoleon. Squealer was sent to make the necessary explanations to the others. \"Comrades!\" he cried. \"You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health. Milk and apples (this has been proved by Science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig. We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for YOUR sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples. Do you know what would happen if we pigs failed in our duty? Jones would come back! Yes, Jones would come back! Surely, comrades,\" cried Squealer almost pleadingly, skipping from side to side and whisking his tail, \"surely there is no one among you who wants to see Jones come back?\"\n\nNow if there was one thing that the animals were completely certain of, it was that they did not want Jones back. When it was put to them in this light, they had no more to say. The importance of keeping the pigs in good health was all too obvious. So it was agreed without further argument that the milk and the windfall apples (and also the main crop of apples when they ripened) should be reserved for the pigs alone.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Animal Farm",
        "slug": "animal-farm",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        },
        {
          "name": "lies",
          "slug": "lies",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/lies"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Animal_Farm#Chapter_3",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:32:30"
    },
    {
      "id": "a8350105-5d81-4739-871b-e4e44574c573",
      "slug": "squealer-who-happened",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm/squealer-who-happened",
      "text": "Squealer, who happened to be passing at this moment, attended by two or three dogs, was able to put the whole matter in its proper perspective.\n\n\"You have heard then, comrades,\" he said, \"that we pigs now sleep in the beds of the farmhouse? And why not? You did not suppose, surely, that there was ever a ruling against beds? A bed merely means a place to sleep in. A pile of straw in a stall is a bed, properly regarded. The rule was against sheets, which are a human invention. We have removed the sheets from the farmhouse beds, and sleep between blankets. And very comfortable beds they are too! But not more comfortable than we need, I can tell you, comrades, with all the brainwork we have to do nowadays. You would not rob us of our repose, would you, comrades? You would not have us too tired to carry out our duties? Surely none of you wishes to see Jones back?\"\n\nThe animals reassured him on this point immediately, and no more was said about the pigs sleeping in the farmhouse beds. And when, some days afterwards, it was announced that from now on the pigs would get up an hour later in the mornings than the other animals, no complaint was made about that either.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Animal Farm",
        "slug": "animal-farm",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "lies",
          "slug": "lies",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/lies"
        },
        {
          "name": "hypocrisy",
          "slug": "hypocrisy",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hypocrisy"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Animal_Farm#Chapter_6",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:32:30"
    },
    {
      "id": "62875780-3e41-4e86-b763-e9d3f3f32a4e",
      "slug": "comrades-do-you",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm/comrades-do-you",
      "text": "Comrades, do you know who is responsible for this? Do you know the enemy who has come in the night and overthrown our windmill? SNOWBALL!",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Animal Farm",
        "slug": "animal-farm",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Animal_Farm#Chapter_6",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:32:30"
    },
    {
      "id": "625ca92e-e43e-47fd-a47f-6dafdb27b0ad",
      "slug": "afterwards-squealer-made",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm/afterwards-squealer-made",
      "text": "Afterwards Squealer made a round of the farm and set the animals' minds at rest. He assured them that the resolution against engaging in trade and using money had never been passed, or even suggested. It was pure imagination, probably traceable in the beginning to lies circulated by Snowball. A few animals still felt faintly doubtful, but Squealer asked them shrewdly, \"Are you certain that this is not something that you have dreamed, comrades? Have you any record of such a resolution? Is it written down anywhere?\" And since it was certainly true that nothing of the kind existed in writing, the animals were satisfied that they had been mistaken.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Animal Farm",
        "slug": "animal-farm",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "lies",
          "slug": "lies",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/lies"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Animal_Farm#Chapter_6",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:32:30"
    },
    {
      "id": "462d4679-adb8-4a3a-85a0-7b8bee80203b",
      "slug": "man-is-the",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm/man-is-the",
      "text": "Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself. Our labour tills the soil, our dung fertilises it, and yet there is not one of us that owns more than his bare skin.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Animal Farm",
        "slug": "animal-farm",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "work",
          "slug": "work",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/work"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Animal_Farm#Chapter_1",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:32:30"
    },
    {
      "id": "321a5151-3001-45db-9bca-de1e61a2db81",
      "slug": "i-have-little",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm/i-have-little",
      "text": "I have little more to say. I merely repeat, remember always your duty of enmity towards Man and all his ways. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend. And remember also that in fighting against Man, we must not come to resemble him. Even when you have conquered him, do not adopt his vices. No animal must ever live in a house, or sleep in a bed, or wear clothes, or drink alcohol, or smoke tobacco, or touch money, or engage in trade. All the habits of Man are evil. And, above all, no animal must ever tyrannise over his own kind. Weak or strong, clever or simple, we are all brothers. No animal must ever kill any other animal. All animals are equal.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Animal Farm",
        "slug": "animal-farm",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Animal_Farm#Chapter_1",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:32:30"
    },
    {
      "id": "31b43720-22b0-483a-b080-c13066511657",
      "slug": "that-evening-squealer",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm/that-evening-squealer",
      "text": "That evening Squealer explained privately to the other animals that Napoleon had never in reality been opposed to the windmill. On the contrary, it was he who had advocated it in the beginning, and the plan which Snowball had drawn on the floor of the incubator shed had actually been stolen from among Napoleon's papers. The windmill was, in fact, Napoleon's own creation. Why, then, asked somebody, had he spoken so strongly against it? Here Squealer looked very sly. That, he said, was Comrade Napoleon's cunning. He had SEEMED to oppose the windmill, simply as a manoeuvre to get rid of Snowball, who was a dangerous character and a bad influence. Now that Snowball was out of the way, the plan could go forward without his interference. This, said Squealer, was something called tactics. He repeated a number of times, \"Tactics, comrades, tactics!\" skipping round and whisking his tail with a merry laugh. The animals were not certain what the word meant, but Squealer spoke so persuasively, and the three dogs who happened to be with him growled so threateningly, that they accepted his explanation without further questions.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Animal Farm",
        "slug": "animal-farm",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        },
        {
          "name": "lies",
          "slug": "lies",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/lies"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Animal_Farm#Chapter_5",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:32:30"
    },
    {
      "id": "2b7bc03d-1f21-4231-9775-8acaa1470b59",
      "slug": "ah-that-is-different",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm/ah-that-is-different",
      "text": "\"Ah, that is different!\" said Boxer. \"If Comrade Napoleon says it, it must be right.\"",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Animal Farm",
        "slug": "animal-farm",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Animal_Farm#Chapter_7",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:32:30"
    },
    {
      "id": "252f175b-a91c-4a89-b38d-3f134f9bc918",
      "slug": "bravery-is-not",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm/bravery-is-not",
      "text": "\"Bravery is not enough,\" said Squealer. \"Loyalty and obedience are more important.\"",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Animal Farm",
        "slug": "animal-farm",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Animal_Farm#Chapter_5",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:32:30"
    },
    {
      "id": "1ae70690-2c53-4f1a-9073-4a4a8e5ebd07",
      "slug": "if-the-fable",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm/if-the-fable",
      "text": "\"If the fable were addressed generally to dictators and dictatorships at large then publication would be all right, but the fable does follow, as I see now, so completely the progress of the Russian Soviets and their two dictators, that it can apply only to Russia, to the exclusion of the other dictatorships. Another thing: it would be less offensive if the predominant caste in the fable were not pigs. I think the choice of pigs as the ruling caste will no doubt give offence to many people, and particularly to anyone who is a bit touchy, as undoubtedly the Russians are.\"",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Animal Farm",
        "slug": "animal-farm",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Animal_Farm#Preface",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:32:30"
    },
    {
      "id": "18c9f4ea-8f4b-4651-a240-27aad9caf31b",
      "slug": "do-not-imagine",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm/do-not-imagine",
      "text": "Do not imagine, comrades, that leadership is a pleasure. On the contrary, it is a deep and heavy responsibility. No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "George Orwell",
        "slug": "george-orwell",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Animal Farm",
        "slug": "animal-farm",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/animal-farm"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Animal_Farm#Chapter_5",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:32:30"
    },
    {
      "id": "2cdd9117-2f40-4df8-9e10-42860d126168",
      "slug": "third-communism-attributes",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/martin-luther-king-jr/strength-to-love/third-communism-attributes",
      "text": "Third, Communism attributes ultimate value to the state. Man is made for the state and not the state for man. One may object, saying that in Communist theory the state is an ‘interim reality,’ which will ‘wither away’ when the classless society emerges. True--in theory; but it is also true that, while it lasts, the state is the end. Man is a means to that end. Man has no inalienable rights. His only rights are derived from, and conferred by, the state. Under such a system, the fountain of freedom runs dry. Restricted are man's liberties of press and assembly, his freedom to vote, and his freedom to listen and to read. Art, religion, education, music, and science come under the gripping yoke of government control. Man must be a dutiful servant to the omnipotent state.",
      "language": "en",
      "author": {
        "name": "Martin Luther King, Jr.",
        "slug": "martin-luther-king-jr",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/martin-luther-king-jr"
      },
      "book": {
        "title": "Strength to Love",
        "slug": "strength-to-love",
        "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/martin-luther-king-jr/strength-to-love"
      },
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "freedom",
          "slug": "freedom",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom"
        },
        {
          "name": "politics",
          "slug": "politics",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr.#Strength_to_Love_(1963)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:32:29"
    }
  ]
}