Gediminas

“What happens when you win?
When your enemies are at your mercy: how will you act then? Compromise is the temptation of the weak; this is the test for the strong.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

“[Ducem Barr:] “Unfortunately, an uninformed public tends to confuse scholarship with magicianry, [...].”
[Bel Riose:] “And so would seem the most natural. But I differ. I connect scholarship with nothing but the means of answering difficult questions.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation and Empire

“We prefer “survivor”.’ ‘But this particular woman is dead,’ Matlock pointed out. ‘Yes.’ ‘So “survivor” isn’t really an appropriate term.’ ‘I’m aware of that. What we need is a new term for survivors of assault who died.”
― Ben Elton, Identity Crisis

“What kind of idea are you? Are you the kind that compromises, does deals, accomodates itself to society, aims to find a niche, to survive; or are you the cussed, bloody-minded, ramrod-backed type of damnfool notion that would rather break than sway with the breeze? – The kind that will almost certainly, ninety-nine times out of hundred, be smashed to bits; but, the hundredth time, will change the world.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses