Richelle Mead Quotes

When you're forced to watch something in school, you never really enjoy it; you sort of rebel against it in a certain way.

The idea of making them take the oath is absurd.

Few there were who could change his courses by counsel. None by force.

No, really. I free you.' I don't want to be free.

[In school] I encountered authority of a different kind than I had ever encountered before, and I did not like it. And they really almost got me. They came close to really beating any curiosity out of me.

If a man stopped me in the street and demanded of me my watch, I should refuse to give it to him. If he threatened to take it by force, I feel I should, though not a fighting man, do my best to protect it. If, on the other hand, he should assert his intention of trying to obtain it by means of an action in any court of law, I should take it out of my pocket and hand it to him, and think I had got off cheaply.

The establishment, whatever rewards it gives us, will also, if necessary to maintain it's control, kill us

Every government on earth is the personification of violence and force, and yet the doctine of non-resistance is as old as human thought - even more than this, the instinct is as old as life upon the earth.

It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are an indispensable gymnastic for the mental powers. It would be monstrous even if it were true.

Indignation does no good unless it is backed with a club of sufficient size to awe the opposition.

I'm just here so I won't get fined.

I was valedictorian. Did I enjoy going to school? I hated it. It wasn't a choice on my part, it was expected.

Who do you think is more difficult to face: oppressive governments, or oppressive societies?

And ordering me around is exactly the wrong way to make me do what you want.

The whole of mankind's progress has had to be achieved against the resistance and opposition of the state and its power of coercion.

There are rules you follow here not because you want to, but because you have to.

I would not come in. I meant not even if asked, And I hadn't been.

Shall you complain who feed the world? Who clothe the world? Who house the world? Shall you complain who are the world, Of what the world may do? As from this hour You use your power, The world must follow you!

Why do you do up your hair in those tortured plaits, now, Melanie? Why? Because, she said. You know that's no answer. You're spoiling your pretty looks, pet. Come here. She did not move. He ground out his cigarette on the window-ledge and laughed. Come here, he said again, softly. So she went.

I’m not going to pick her up and carry her screaming to the basement,” Trent said. “It’s a workday. Besides, she has a crutch.” “Crutch or no, she’s hurt!” Ceri protested. “I mean,” Trent said intently, “she can hit me with it if I do something she doesn’t like.

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, will not be given up without a struggle.

Some people will pay their tuition, and then defy you to give them an education.

Tell me where you want it,” I said. Minias drew back, his purple robes shifting about his ankles. “You’re asking me?” “Well, unless you want a big R on your forehead.

The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.

Devoid of all romance, the music plays and everyone must dance. I'm bowing out.