Richard Swan > Quotes

“... But that was the populist way. They just gleefully spouted mistruths that were so outrageous and stupid there was no way to properly engage with them.”
― Richard Swan

“Beware the idiot, the zealot and the tyrant; each clothes himself in the armor of ignorance.”
― Richard Swan, The Justice of Kings: the Sunday Times bestseller

“She didn't mean help from you. She meant help from me.”
― Richard Swan, The Tyranny of Faith

“Necromancy ... is a wonderful thing.”
― Richard Swan, Empire of the Wolf Series 3 Books Collection Set By Richard Swan

“A bag of gold is the diplomat's best weapon. If you cannot buy your enemy with it's contents, you can crack his skull with it.”
― Richard Swan, Steel Gods

“The art of diplomacy is to very gently, very kindly, very sincerely press a rope into the hands of your enemies and insist, most politely, that he hang himself with it.”
― Richard Swan, Steel Gods

“There are few more worthy of contempt than the man who excuses himself the burden of making the world a better place; who declares that "mankind is doomed" and there is naught to be done about it. Such people seek to shock and impress with their affected indifference, but in truth they are the most pathetic of creatures, tepid of spirit and intellectually vacant. Resist them vigorously; reject their philosophical stool without hesitation.”
― Richard Swan

“Tyranny loves apathy.”
― Richard Swan