Steven Erikson Quotes

The tyrant is a child of pride.

Who could not conquer with such troops as these?

The Arrogance of Power

[Douglas] MacArthur is the type of man who thinks that when he gets to heaven, God will step down from the great white throne and bow him into His vacated seat.

Would you rather lead an army of slaves?

My, aren't we bossy today. Give a girl an army and it goes straight to her head.

Any conqueror in human history has always been ultimately someone who exists purely for the expansion of their own ego, through amounting more.

The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.

The Conqueror is always a lover of peace: he would prefer to take over our country unopposed.

Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.

In the latter case it is often government that organizes the conquest, and religion that justifies it.

No leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all.

I shall be an Attila to Venice.

Arise, go forth, and conquer as of old.

I'm a powerful S.O.B., you know that?

Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.

Battles decide everything.

To come under siege was the inevitable fate of power.

Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.

Wherever there is power there is age.

War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free.

A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.

A resolute leader who collects ten thousand adventurers about him can do as he pleases. Were the whole world a single Imperium, it would thereby become merely the maximum conceivable field for the exploits of such conquering heroes.

We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.

The pleasure and joy of man lies in treading down the rebel and conquering the enemy, in tearing him up by the root, in taking from him all that he has.