Devon Smith > Devon's Quotes

“Sagas wouldn't be interesting if terrible things didn't happen to the people in them.”
― Jack Campbell, Valiant

“Security is not a license for people in authority to hide the tactics they would never openly admit to using.”
― Jack Campbell, Invincible

“Humanity's gift to the universe. Duct Tape.”
― Jack Campbell, Invincible

“Peace through superior firepower.”
― John Ringo, A Hymn Before Battle

“I have been to the speed of God, sir...and I discommend it.”
― John Ringo, A Hymn Before Battle

“nuke em till they glow and then shoot 'em in the dark”
― John Ringo, Gust Front

“The fans are on, let's see which way the shit blows.”
― B.V. Larson, Conquest

“The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.”
― James Madison

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles W. Eliot

“For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.”
― Sir Thomas More, Utopia

“No, do the best you can to make the present production a success - don't spoil the entire play just because you happen to think of another one that you'd enjoy rather more.”
― Thomas More, Utopia

“there is nothing more inglorious than that glory that is gained by war”
― Thomas More, Utopia: A Revised Translation Backgrounds Criticism

“for what justice is there in this: that a nobleman, a goldsmith, a banker, or any other man, that either does nothing at all, or, at best, is employed in things that are of no use to the public, should live in great luxury and splendour upon what is so ill acquired, and a mean man, a carter, a smith, or a ploughman, that works harder even than the beasts themselves, and is employed in labours so necessary, that no commonwealth could hold out a year without them, can only earn so poor a livelihood and must lead so miserable a life, that the condition of the beasts is much better than theirs? ”
― Thomas More, Utopia

“The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”
― H. P. Lovecraft