“That’s the illusion they preach, the trick you end up believing is real. They tell you true power is dictated by the dictator, because he lives in the ivory tower with his finger on the trigger, but the secret they keep, the part they refuse to tell you during your adolescent indoctrination…is that none of that is true. “Real power,” she said, “isn’t dealt in bullets, darlings, but in words.”
―
J.N. Chaney,
The Amber Project
“He sweated like a whore in church.” ― J.N. Chaney, The Last Reaper
“Every leader who made a difference didn’t do it with a sword or a gun, but with a voice that might have moved a mountain.” ― J.N. Chaney, The Amber Project
“You bring a frozen girl on my ship, it becomes my business.” ― J.N. Chaney, Renegade Star
“I let the anger out, one bullet at a time.” ― J.N. Chaney, The Fifth Column
“Everyone seems to think power comes from a weapon, from something you can hold in your hands and aim at someone’s skull. A bully picks up a stick in the schoolyard and makes a threat, and see how he is rewarded. The weaker children obey, not out of love, but fear. This practice doesn’t change when we grow older. The only thing that changes is the stick becomes a bomb, and the bully wears a uniform and calls himself a king.” ― J.N. Chaney, The Amber Project
“All that worry fades when you get older, and it stops happening every time you shut your eyes, but everyone still has nights like that.” ― J.N. Chaney, Renegade Moon
“That was the downside of being a genius. Your brain didn’t know when to stop working.” ― J.N. Chaney, Renegade Dawn
“Genocide wasn’t so bad as long as the gods gave it their blessing.” ― J.N. Chaney, Hope Everlasting
“The opening notes of The Ancient’s Call hummed through the room, ponderous and heartbreakingly sad, evoking the last pages of a beloved story where you realized you’d never be able to read them for the first time again.” ― J.N. Chaney, Red Bounty
“That’s the illusion they preach, the trick you end up believing is real. They tell you true power is dictated by the dictator, because he lives in the ivory tower with his finger on the trigger, but the secret they keep, the part they refuse to tell you during your adolescent indoctrination… is that none of that is true. Real power isn’t dealt in bullets, darlings, but in words. Words that stir a man to stand when all the rest have fled… to fight unwinnable wars, all for the sake of a thought. Every leader who made a difference didn’t do it with a sword or a gun, but with a voice that might have moved a mountain. Think of all the revolutions, all the great religions whose followers once numbered in the billions, and understand me when I tell you: they started with a few delusional fools, conspiring in a room.” ― J.N. Chaney, The Amber Project
“Exploiting situations to gain public favor is politics in a nutshell, darling” ― J.N. Chaney
“It was a theory based on centuries of traditional science. And it failed. Why? Because deep down in the back of our minds, we are fundamentally afraid of change. But Nature operates on change, on adaptability. If we cannot adapt, we cannot progress. And if we cannot progress, we will die. If we can accept this fundamental truth, we can move forward.” ― J.N. Chaney, The Amber Project
“But I wasn’t most men, and optimism, more than not, got men like that killed. I preferred to prepare for the worst and expect the worst. A pessimist all the way.” ― J.N. Chaney, Renegade Descent
“A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for. – William G.T. Shedd” ― J.N. Chaney, The Variant Saga Boxed Set
“whatever paradise or hell it might take him.” ― J.N. Chaney, The Amber Project
“Neither fat nor muscular, he gave the impression of someone who frequently yelled at waiters for not getting his food just right.” ― J.N. Chaney, Intrinsic Immortality
“Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.–Carl Sagan” ― J.N. Chaney, The Amber Project
“People were messy, and not just in a shedding-dead-skin-cells sort of way. They were messy emotionally and had mental states that could whipsaw from one extreme to the other, sometimes almost instantly.” ― J.N. Chaney, Backyard Starship
“He sweated like a whore in church.” ― J.N. Chaney, The Last Reaper
“Every leader who made a difference didn’t do it with a sword or a gun, but with a voice that might have moved a mountain.” ― J.N. Chaney, The Amber Project
“You bring a frozen girl on my ship, it becomes my business.” ― J.N. Chaney, Renegade Star
“I let the anger out, one bullet at a time.” ― J.N. Chaney, The Fifth Column
“Everyone seems to think power comes from a weapon, from something you can hold in your hands and aim at someone’s skull. A bully picks up a stick in the schoolyard and makes a threat, and see how he is rewarded. The weaker children obey, not out of love, but fear. This practice doesn’t change when we grow older. The only thing that changes is the stick becomes a bomb, and the bully wears a uniform and calls himself a king.” ― J.N. Chaney, The Amber Project
“All that worry fades when you get older, and it stops happening every time you shut your eyes, but everyone still has nights like that.” ― J.N. Chaney, Renegade Moon
“That was the downside of being a genius. Your brain didn’t know when to stop working.” ― J.N. Chaney, Renegade Dawn
“Genocide wasn’t so bad as long as the gods gave it their blessing.” ― J.N. Chaney, Hope Everlasting
“The opening notes of The Ancient’s Call hummed through the room, ponderous and heartbreakingly sad, evoking the last pages of a beloved story where you realized you’d never be able to read them for the first time again.” ― J.N. Chaney, Red Bounty
“That’s the illusion they preach, the trick you end up believing is real. They tell you true power is dictated by the dictator, because he lives in the ivory tower with his finger on the trigger, but the secret they keep, the part they refuse to tell you during your adolescent indoctrination… is that none of that is true. Real power isn’t dealt in bullets, darlings, but in words. Words that stir a man to stand when all the rest have fled… to fight unwinnable wars, all for the sake of a thought. Every leader who made a difference didn’t do it with a sword or a gun, but with a voice that might have moved a mountain. Think of all the revolutions, all the great religions whose followers once numbered in the billions, and understand me when I tell you: they started with a few delusional fools, conspiring in a room.” ― J.N. Chaney, The Amber Project
“Exploiting situations to gain public favor is politics in a nutshell, darling” ― J.N. Chaney
“It was a theory based on centuries of traditional science. And it failed. Why? Because deep down in the back of our minds, we are fundamentally afraid of change. But Nature operates on change, on adaptability. If we cannot adapt, we cannot progress. And if we cannot progress, we will die. If we can accept this fundamental truth, we can move forward.” ― J.N. Chaney, The Amber Project
“But I wasn’t most men, and optimism, more than not, got men like that killed. I preferred to prepare for the worst and expect the worst. A pessimist all the way.” ― J.N. Chaney, Renegade Descent
“A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for. – William G.T. Shedd” ― J.N. Chaney, The Variant Saga Boxed Set
“whatever paradise or hell it might take him.” ― J.N. Chaney, The Amber Project
“Neither fat nor muscular, he gave the impression of someone who frequently yelled at waiters for not getting his food just right.” ― J.N. Chaney, Intrinsic Immortality
“Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.–Carl Sagan” ― J.N. Chaney, The Amber Project
“People were messy, and not just in a shedding-dead-skin-cells sort of way. They were messy emotionally and had mental states that could whipsaw from one extreme to the other, sometimes almost instantly.” ― J.N. Chaney, Backyard Starship
