“The problem with fear, though, is that it isnt any one thing. Fear has a whole taxonomyanxiety, dread, panic, forebodingand you could be braced for one form and completely fall apart facing another.”

“The Army might screw you and your girlfriend might dump you and the enemy might kill you, but the shared commitment to safeguard one anothers lives is unnegotiable and only deepens with time. The w...”

“War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of.”

“Each Javelin round costs $80,000, and the idea that it's fired by a guy who doesn't make that in a year at a guy who doesn't make that in a lifetime is somehow so outrageous it almost makes the war...”

“Society can give its young men almost any job and they'll figure how to do it. They'll suffer for it and die for it and watch their friends die for it, but in the end, it will get done. That only m...”

“War is a lot of things and it's useless to pretend that exciting isn't one of them. (pg. 144)”

“A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be alowed to know this.”

“Above all, he loathed men who beat women; for, real men didnt exercise their strength on frail creatures, they joined the army and put Shazarias enemies in their graves.”

“Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?”

“The Army might screw you and your girlfriend might dump you and the enemy might kill you, but the shared commitment to safeguard one anothers lives is unnegotiable and only deepens with time. The w...”

“Women shouldn't be in combat," said Vorkosigan, grimly glum. "Neither should men, in my opinion.”

“I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.”

“There are a dozen different ways of delivering destruction in impersonal wholesale, via ships and missiles of one sort or another, catastrophes so widespread, so unselective, that the war is over b...”

“How long you been in the infantry, sir? Anything under ten miles counts as 'almost there'.”

“Lieutenant Mortas is the black sheep of the family--I thought you knew that.”