Pacifism is a virtue indistinguishable from cowardice.
Brent Weeks, The Blinding Knife.
“I'm afraid we were so eager to avoid war, we've made it all but certain.”
“The truth is so dear to me that if Orholam stood on one side and truth on the other, I would turn my back on my creator himself.”
“You're a great man, but only when seen from afar.”
“Pacifism is a virtue indisguishable from cowardice.”
“ A lie told in the service of truth is virtue.”
“... your father has two secrets. You, Kip are not one of them.”
“A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.”
“Cowards make the best torturers. Cowards understand fear and they can use it.”
“Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.”
“We being satiate with continual wars, let the desire of peace a little move us.”
“No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.”
“Unfortunately, that still leaves plenty of Americans who don't read much or think much -- who will still be extremely useful in unjust wars. We are sick about that. We did the best we could. ”
“I see your point. It irks you to see anyone at all who is able to work permitted to live without working. But why do you consider work a virtue?”
“Those who have wisdom have all:Fools with all have nothing.”
“Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.”