What unites people? Armies? Gold? Flags? Stories. There’s nothing in the world more powerful than a good story. Nothing can stop it. No enemy can defeat it.
We are on the cusp of crafting a new kind of power. Not of strength, but of spirit. Not of the flesh, but over flesh. This is a power of the Unseen World.
War never changes. You look out at this Wasteland, looks like chaos. But there’s always somebody behind the wheel.
To really protect people… you need power.
They were so powerful, they wrote the laws to benefit themselves. They got away with everything because they banked on us, all of us, to trust the system. That was our vulnerability, and they took advantage of it.
These badges we wear on our chest, made from different materials. Yours a tin star, mine a star cut from a cinco peso piece. Just raw materials. But the power they give…[Esau Pierce]The real power lie beneath. In the heart.[Bass Reeves]
There’s no power in puppeting fools, especially one who’d sooner fondle his sorceress than listen to her.
There is God, and there are the Peaky Blinders. This is Sparkhill, we’re in Small Heath. We are much, much closer at hand than God.[to Mother Superior]
There is a power inside me, and it just takes over.
There have always been those with wealth and power and those with nothing. That is the way of the world.
The whole point of having a castle is for the enemy to show off its strength.
The time is coming, Alicent. Either you prepare Aegon to rule, or you cleave to Rhaenyra and pray for her mercy.