quotes by Karen Traviss

"Think of yourselves as a hand. Each of you is a finger, and without the others you're useless. Alone, a finger can't grasp, or control, or form a fist. You are nothing on your own, and everything together."
— Karen Traviss

"If you take a shot at someone, you keep firing until they can no longer return fire. Wound them, and you have an angry enemy who knows your position."
— Karen Traviss

"I don't know who the good guys are anymore. But I do know what the enemy is. It's the compromise of principles. You lose the war when you lose your principles. And the first principle is to look out for your comrades."
— Karen Traviss

"So you want a knife, a nice sharp knife. You hone that blade to its limits. It even cuts through stone when you want it to. It saves your life. And then you're outraged when it cuts you accidentally. You see, knives don't switch off. And neither do people, not when you hone them to a fine edge."
— Karen Traviss

"Ugliness is an illusion, gentlemen. Like beauty. Like color. All depends on the light. The only reality is action."
— Karen Traviss (Star Wars Republic Commando True Colors)

"It's okay to be scared as long as you use it."
— Karen Traviss

"Sergeant Skirata said that civvies didn't have a clue, and that it was alright for them to have lofty ideas about peace and freedom as long as they weren't the ones being shot at."
— Karen Traviss

"If we don't stand up for others, who will be left to stand up for us?"
— Karen Traviss

"It ain't what you say: it's how you say it."
— Karen Traviss

"Nowhere does it say free speech is carte blanche to be a jerk. And don't cheapen real free speech by hijacking an honourable concept bought dearly with people's lives just to get a little spotlight. Spotlights run hot, and they can burn."
— Karen Traviss

"If you're not prepared to do something in public, don't do it at all."
— Karen Traviss

"Sitting back and not getting involved while people get killed in an endless cycle of wars doesn't count as not having blood on your hands."
— Karen Traviss

"Time means lives. Time means more chaos. We always think that time will resolve things, but it never has."
— Karen Traviss

"If you can't beat them, divide them."
— Karen Traviss

"The trouble with taking away the certainty of evil was that its vacuum was filled by all kinds of more nebulous threats, rivalries, and feuds. It became increasingly difficult to judge where the threat was coming from."
— Karen Traviss

"There's rights, and there's right."
— Karen Traviss

"And nobody has the right to judge a soldier from the warmth and safety of their armchair."
— Karen Traviss