Brandon Sanderson Quotes

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

To freemen, threats are impotent.

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

You only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything he’s no longer in your power — he’s free again.

And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?

Alive or dead, the truth won't rest. Rise up while you can.

We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the contest, and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for present aid: none is at hand. We must now act or abandon all hope! Rally to the standard, and be no longer the scoff of mercenary tongues! Be men, be free men, that your children may bless their father's name.

No one can tell us no. No one can make us stop. We have picked each other and the rest of the world can go to hell.

Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.

We shall defend every village, every town and every city. The vast mass of London itself, fought street by street, could easily devour an entire hostile army; and we would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.

Choices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?

Once freedom lights its beacon in man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.

In the long run, truth is aided by nothing so much as by opposition.

We are not helpless...Many times in our lives we’ve been powerless, but not this night. Right now we have the power to choose the manner in which we die. If you have been a master of nothing else in all your days, you are now a master of this moment. And I for one am going to give such an answer to this insult that others will dearly regret not being by my side to see it!

The truth can be hard to take, but we have an obligation to look and see what's going on, and, if we don't like it, a chance to stop going along with it. This important film provides precisely that insight and that opportunity.

You will not drown the truth in seas of blood

Don't accept the limitations of other people who claim things are 'unchangeable'. If it's written in stone, bring your hammer and chisel.

I keep working because I am quite sure that no particle of goodness or truth is ever really lost, however appearances may be to the contrary.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high, where knowledge is free. Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls. Where words come out from the depth of truth, where tireless striving stretches its arms toward perfection. Where the clear stream of reason has not lost it's way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit. Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever widening thought and action. In to that heaven of freedom, my father, LET MY COUNTRY AWAKE!

So it is better to speak, remembering we were never meant to survive.

The gentleman is a man of truth, lord of his own actions, and expressing that lordship in his behavior, not in any manner dependent and servile either on persons, or opinions, or possessions.

If The Beatles or the 60's had a message, it was 'Learn to swim. And once you've learned - swim!

The man who can be compelled knows not how to die.

It will take a nation of millions to hold me back.