Evil lives in a pit. If you want to fight it – you must climb down in the slime to do so.
David GemmellHow many hopes and dreams are trapped within these bones? How many wonders lie never to be discovered? This is what war is. Desolation, despair and loss. There are no victors.
David GemmellAn enemy is like a man's most prized flower. It brings him joy to see it buried in the ground.
David GemmellMan is capable of greatness, love, nobility, compassion. Yet never forget that his capacity for evil is infinite. It is a sad truth, boy, that if you sit now and think of the worst tortures that could ever be inflicted on another human being, they will already have been practiced somewhere. If there is one sound that follows the march of humanity, it is the scream.
David Gemmell