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War makes monsters of men. “Wrong,” says the Mayor. “It’s war that makes us men in the first place. Until there’s war, we are only children.”
You’re never more alive than in battle.” “Never more dead after,”
worst is the one who knows better and does nothing.
If this is what Todd and I would do for each other, does that make us right? Or does it make us dangerous?
“Ideals, my girl,” she says. “Always easier to believe in than live.” “But if you don’t at least try to live them,” Bradley says, “then there’s no point in living at all.”
choice. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that’s not how a person with integrity acts.”
“People say they want freedom, but what they really want is freedom from worry.
“Usually when a man calls a woman a bitch,” a voice calls over from a cart pulling up near us at the edge of camp, “it’s because she’s doing something right.”
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.”
