The Land: Raiders (Chaos Seeds, #6)

by Aleron Kong

there is no replacement for training and superior weaponry.

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out – because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out – because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out -- because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me – and there was no one left to speak for me.

Gentle, yet stern, apologetic but somehow still commanding, his father had said, “Be better than the men that came before you.”

It was important to do the right thing, and not for a reward, but because it was the right thing.

“Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.”

“Assumptions create barriers in your own mind. By taking

shortcuts in logic, you wall yourself off from true enlightenment.”