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To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that’s not how a person with integrity acts.”
“What’s important is taking responsibility for it. Learning from it. Using it to make things better.”
“People say they want freedom, but what they really want is freedom from worry.
but it’s been obvious since the beginning that wars make no sense. You kill people to tell them you want to stop killing them. Monsters of men, I think. And women.
“The world changes all the time,”
“In a place of all this beauty and potential,” Bradley says, looking around, “we just repeat the same mistakes. Do we hate paradise so much we have to be sure it becomes a trash heap?”
I do not feel remarkable, I show. I only feel tired.
What a sad thing men are. Can’t do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can’t build something up without tearing it down.
“War makes monsters of men, you once said to me, Todd. Well, so does too much knowledge. Too much knowledge of your fellow man, too much knowledge of his weakness, his pathetic greed and vanity, and how laughably easy it is to control him.”
Why can’t we learn to live with how we are? And whatever anybody chooses is okay by the rest of us?
