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1 " LAW 4 Always Say Less Than Necessary When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike. Powerful people impress and intimidate by saying less. The more you say, the more likely you are to say something foolish. "
― Robert Greene , The 48 Laws of Power
2 " He didn’t know what beget what, but he quickly learned that people with money to hide were powerful, and powerful people were violent. It was reliable math: as the amount of money being conveyed increased, so too did the level of paranoia; the psychotic behavior of his clients increasing with every figure added to the sum. "
― T. Mountebank , Sister Sable (The Mad Queen #1)
3 " Suspense was an excellent tool for keeping powerful people off balance. It gave one bargaining power. "
― Robin Hobb , City of Dragons (Rain Wild Chronicles, #3)
4 " The dream of a planned, fair, moral, ethical, cash-free society remains strong, particularly among socialists and liberals. It clearly represents a fundamental human instinct. But feudalism just did not work very well, if only because powerful people will not always obey moral imperatives. "
5 " The combination of power, optimism and abstract thinking makes powerful people more certain. The more cut-off they are from others, the more confident they are that they are right. "
― Margaret Heffernan , Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril
