Quotes About Conflict

Alan hasn't lost it," I said. "And he's been in as long as I have." "That's true," Keyes said. "What's your answer to that, Rosenthal?" "I'm a seething cauldron of disconnected rage on the inside, Lieutenant.

Nadashe propped herself up and smiled at her mother. "Hi, Mom," she said. The Countess Nohamapetan slapped her daughter hard across the face. "That's for killing your brother," she said. Then she slapped Nadashe again. "What's that one for?" Nadashe asked. "For getting caught.

You want explanations," Colonel Abel Rigney said to Coloma from behind his desk at Phoenix Station. In a chair in front of the desk, Colonel Liz Egan sat, watching Coloma. "What I want is to walk you out of an airlock," Coloma said, to Rigney. She glanced over to Egan in her chair. "And possibly walk you out after him." She returned her gaze to Rigney. "But for now, an explanation will do.

The Forever War

Which means I will have failed because of you. I may be low on the diplomatic totem pole, but I am sufficiently high enough on it that when I push you, you will die from the fall." She looked over to Schmidt. "And he'll kill you when he lands.

They are still in rebellion. You don't win a rebellion by default.

We're not military," Sharan said. "And I'm sure that will make a huge difference to whoever is attacking the base," Cainen said, and offered the gun to Sharan.

Damn real live people, getting in the way of peaceful ideals

It was largely a land without Borders - something that attracted him and disturbed him both. The land didn't need laws. But the people did.

I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.

I think I love you, Cal. -Abra I'm not good. -Cal Because you're not good. -Abra

Look now -- in all of history men have been taught that killing of men is an evil thing not to be countenanced. Any man who kills must be destroyed because this is a great sin, maybe the worst we know. And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, use it well, use it wisely. We put no checks on him. Go out and kill as many of a certain kind or classification of your brothers as you can. And we will reward you for it because it is a violation of your early training.

Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars.

Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.

Well, I remember this girl. I am not whole without her. I am not alive without her. When she was with me I was more alive than I have ever been, and not only when she was pleasant either. Even when we were fighting I was whole.

I'm tired of people who have not been at war who know all about it.

We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.

I do love her, and that's odd because she is everything I detest in anyone else.

I always found in myself a dread of west and a love of east.

The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.

And now submarines are armed with mass murder, our silly, only way of deterring mass murder.

Her shame and fierceness were blended.

Courage and fear were one thing too.

And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, Use it well, use it wisely.