Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes.
Joe AbercrombieGet what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.
Joe AbercrombieNames turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud.
Joe AbercrombieOnly it’s just the same. In fact, do you know, because of all that pressure, and worry, and fear, it’s worse. There aren’t many men who think clearest when the stakes are highest. So people are even stupider in a war than the rest of the time. Thinking about how they’ll dodge the blame, or grab the glory, or save their skins, rather than about what will actually work There’s no job that forgives stupidity more than soldiering. No job that encourages it more.
Joe Abercrombie