10 Quotes by Rod Duncan

It is not in the entrails of doves that the fall of empires can be read, but in the breeding of secrets and the multiplication of lies.

Revolution was never sparked by political philosophy. It has ever been the price of bread that shakes the pillars of the world. Yet they lock up the thinkers and leave the bakers free.

I un-gritted my teeth to speak. "I need no more proof of tyranny.""Our only desire is the wellbeing of the common man.""I am not a man.

What is a chameleon’s colour, when all pretence is stripped away?

It was to dispel the smog of superstition and prejudice that we pulled the churches down. Now that work is done, let us build libraries in their stead.

For good or ill, knowledge has ever threatened the settled order. A keg of gunpowder may make matchwood of a sturdy house. But a book can set the world on fire.

To solve a mystery you must ask the right question. To keep a mystery you must have them ask the wrong one.

There is no more complete and satisfying way for a man to disappear than for him to have never existed.

Men fancy that they recognise a woman by dress, figure and face but it is more through movement that gender is revealed.