166 Quotes by Robert Jackson Bennett

Is this how governments are made? Forcing decisions on wounded people in the middle of the night?

The woman smiles. The smile is neither pleasant nor unpleasant: it is a smile like fine silver plate, used for one occasion and polished and put away once finished.

I have never met a person who possessed a privilege who did not exercise that privilege to the fullest extent that they possibly could. Say what you like of a belief... of a party... of a finance system... of a power. All I see is privilege and its consequences. States are not in my opinion composed of structures supporting privilege but of structures denying it... in other words deciding who is not invited to the table.

This is a rich man’s fight,” said Sancia. “A rich man’s game. And we’re all just pieces on the board to you. You think you’re different, Orso, but you’re just like all the rest of them!