It is one thing to lead by example with half a dozen soldiers at your back. It is wholly another with ten thousand.
Steven EriksonWar has its necessities...and I have always understood that. Always known the cost. But, this day, by my own hand, I have realized something else. War is not a natural state. It is an imposition, and a damned unhealthy one. With its rules, we willingly yield our humanity. Speak not of just causes, worthy goals. We are takers of life.
Steven EriksonWise words are like arrows flung at your forehead. What do you do? Why, you duck of course.
Steven Erikson