Lois McMaster Bujold - Power Quotes

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I suppose my determination to be a soldier stems from that date. I mean the real thing, not the parades and the uniforms and the glamour, but the logistics, the offensive advantage, the speed and surprise — the power. A better-prepared, stronger, tougher, faster, meaner son-of-a-bitch than any who came through that door.

Lois McMaster Bujold
Power is better than revenge. Power is a live thing, by which you reach out to grasp the future. Revenge is a dead thing, reaching out from the past to grasp you.

Lois McMaster Bujold
You can't give power away and keep it simultaneously. Except posthumously.

Lois McMaster Bujold
If it ever came down to exerting power by force, it would mean I'd already lost it.

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If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

Lois McMaster Bujold
Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal.

Lois McMaster Bujold
Welcome to Barrayar, son. Here you go: have a world of wealth and poverty, wrenching change and rooted history. Have a birth; have two. Have a name. Miles means "soldier," but don't let the power of suggestion overwhelm you. Have a twisted form in a society that loathes and fears the mutations that have been its deepest agony. Have a title, wealth, power, and all the hatred and envy they will draw. Have your body ripped apart and re-arranged. Inherit an array of friends and enemies you never made. Have a grandfather from hell. Endure pain, find joy, and make your own meaning, because the universe certainly isn't going to supply it. Always be a moving target. Live. Live. Live.

Lois McMaster Bujold
The wounded want power, nothing else; they think it will keep them from being hurt again.

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Leadership is mostly a power over imagination, and never more so than in combat. The bravest man alone can only be an armed lunatic. The real strength lies in the ability to get others to do your work.

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I don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.

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