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“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.
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“He looked him right in the eyes and saw a man who was great and good and human, who had done extraordinary things and terrible things and been broken and reassembled as a shell, only then to do the bravest thing of all: He had kept on living, though there are easier paths to take.”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

“Everyone shush now,’ I said, taking a step towards the guards. ‘I’m about to be impressive.”
― Sebastien de Castell, Tyrant's Throne

“That's what being free means - not the right to do whatever you want, but the right to take a stand and say what you'll die for.”
― Sebastien de Castell, Traitor's Blade