29 quotes found
“Freedom costs too much”
“Rather a drink be my master than a man.”
“Death is easy when you've already tried to find it.”
“Man cannot be freed by the same injustice that enslaved it.”
“In the densest places of man, humanity most easily breaks down”
“... You have to pull the feet to break the neck. They let the loved ones do it.”
“Dreamers like your wife are limited, little Helldiver. She makes sure I dont speak.Understand that. The only power they have is in death. The harder they die, the loudertheir voice, the deeper the ...”
“I look at him for a moment. Words are a weapon stronger than he knows. And songs are even greater. The words wake the mind. The melody wakes the heart. I come from a people of song and dance. I don...”
“Words are weapons stronger than he knows. And songs are even greater. The words wake the mind. The melody wakes the heart.”
“You do not follow me because I am the strongest. Pax is. You do not follow me because I am the brightest. Mustang is. You follow me because you do not know where you are going. I do.”
“Personally, I do not want to make you a man. Men are so very frail. Men break. Men die. No, Ive always wished to make a god.”
“Death isn't empty like you say it is. Emptiness is life without freedom, Darrow. Emptiness is living chained by fear, fear of loss, of death. I say we break those chains. Break the chains of fear a...”
“Society has three stages: Savagery, Ascendance, Decadence. The great rise because of Savagery. They rule in Ascendance. They fall because of their own Decadence."He tells how the Persians were fell...”
“Life. All this. Why do they need to make us do this? Why do they treat us like we're their slaves?""Power.""Power isn't real. It's just a word.”
“My people sing, we dance, we love. That is our strength. But we also dig. And then we die. Seldom do we get to choose why. That choice is power. That choice has been our only weapon. But it is not ...”
“The foolish families worry over blood. I care nothing for purity of family or ancestry. That is a vain thing. I care only for strength. What a man can do to other men, women.”
“She will not come back, but her beauty, her voice, will echo until the end of time. She believed in something beyond herself, and her death gave her voice power it didnt have in life. She was pure,...”
“I will learn to lead eets. I will win. I will sharpen myself into asword. I will give my soul. I will dive to hell in hopes of one day rising to freedom. I willsacrice. And I will grow my legend an...”
“Life is the most effective school ever created. Once upon a time they made children bow their heads and read books. It would take ages to get anything across." He taps his head. "But we have widget...”
“I cannot escape it, what Ive done, no matter how far Ifollow the tunnel. I am alone with my sin. This is why they rule. The Peerless Scarredknow that dark deeds are carried through life. They canno...”
“I am so small. A billion tons of durosteel and nanometal move through the heavens, and I have never been beyond Mars's atmosphere. They are like specks of silver in an ocean of ink. And I am so muc...”
“There is a festival where we wear the faces of demons to ward evil spirits from our dead in the vale. Sometimes wefail.”
