Kim Young-ha Quotes

The best thing about being God would be making the heads.

For, in truth, there is no sure way of holding other than by destroying

She had made him possible. In that sense she was his god. Like God, she was neglected.

I'm not God, don't intend to be and hope I never have that much power.

You got to understand the god thing. It’s not magic. It’s about being you, but the you that people believe in. It’s about being the concentrated, magnified, essence of you. It’s about becoming thunder, or the power of a running horse, or wisdom. You take all the belief and become bigger, cooler, more than human. You crystallize.” He paused. “And then one day they forget about you, and they don’t believe in you, and they don’t sacrifice, and they don’t care, and the next thing you know you’re running a three-card monte game on the corner of Broadway and Forty-third.

Destroy or be destroyed-there is no middle way! Let us then be the destroyers!

Man has come to dominate the planet thanks to two essential traits. One is intelligence. The other has been the absolute willingness to kill anyone and anything that gets in his way.

Who is all-powerful should fear everything.

There was no doubt now in Ender's mind. There was no help for him. Whatever he faced, now and forever, no one would save him from it. Peter might be scum, but Peter had been right, always right; the power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.

Killing one person makes you a murderer. Killing a million people makes you a king. Killing them all makes you God.

You wouldn't let him do it, would you, Jamie?" Jamie's expression was very serene. She stared at Andrew when she spoke to her husband. "With your permission, I would like to answer him." "You have it," Alec replied. "Andrew," she called out in a voice as cold and clear as a frigid winter morning, "my husband does whatever he wishes to do. I am sometimes allowed to help, though. If he decides to cut off your feet, I will, of course, offer him my assistance.

Sometimes I feel like God…when I order someone killed – they die the same day.

War is the father and king of all.

If there were gods, how could I endure not to be a god? Therefore there are no gods.

Structures can be manipulated for ill as well, especially when people are dealing with issues of power, or control, or violence.

The idea of God is the type and foundation of the principle of authority and absolutism, which it is our task to destroy or at least to subordinate wherever it manifests itself.

He alone has the right to break, for He alone has the power to mend.

What you get with violence can be maintained only with violence

You think my first instinct is to protect you. Because you're small, or a girl, or a Stiff. But you're wrong." He leans his face close to mine and wraps his fingers around my chin. His hand smells like metal. When was the last time he held a gun, or a knife? My skin tingles at the point of contact, like he's transmitting electricity through his skin. "My first instinct is to push you until you break, just to see how hard I have to press." he says, his fingers squeezing at the word break. My body tenses at the edge in his voice, so I am coiled as tight as a spring, and I forget to breathe.

all history shows that the hand that cradles the rock has ruled the world, not the hand that rocks the cradle!

Beware the People weeping When they bare the iron hand.

When Tarquin the Proud was asked what was the best mode of governing a conquered city, he replied only by beating down with his staff all the tallest poppies in his garden.

Why must you always try to be omnipotent, and shove things about? Tragic things happen sometimes that we just have to submit to.

Can I cut off your head?" "Are you asking for my permission?

Brooding, she changed the pool into the sea, and made the minnows into sharks and whales, and cast vast clouds over this tiny world by holding her hand against the sun, and so brought darkness and desolation, like God himself, to millions of ignorant and innocent creatures, and then took her hand away suddenly and let the sun stream down.