Ruling The World Quotes

“What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a good thing we did, or we'd be dead, and the tigers would own the earth.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“Maybonne said "Just because someone has lace-up hip huggers does not mean they can control the world". Then Magreet let her wear those pants. When my aunt saw them on her she shouted "Are you trying to kill me?!”
― Lynda Barry, Down the Street

“I am the rightful ruler of this world And now that I, too, have awakened, like my dragons, I have come to take back what is mine.”
― Nenia Campbell, Touched with Sight

“The cycles of humankind – sheep in control of sheep – were part of an ingenious process taught to errand boys that were in charge of supervising others like them. No pawn or errand boy knows the Truth. No sheep or shepherd managed to escape their fate.
As long as humankind exists, there will be betrayals and murders.”
― Robert Neil Flieischer

“Do you not want to rule the world, Nicator Seleucus? Do you not want your name whispered from Athens to the banks of the Indus? Hear the bards singing your fame for posterity and the cities minting your coins? The armies carrying your banners and the warriors piercing the clouds with your name? Do you not want all of that, Seleucus?”
― Moris Farhi, Doctor Who: Farewell, Great Macedon