Fodder Quotes

“Not everyone is fodder for books,' said Rosalind.”
― Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks in Spring

“Most of the stories you hear about dragons are fodder for fools.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“A young man is the perfect soldier. He has great potential for aggression and a limited critical capacity—or none at all—with which to analyze it and judge how to channel it. Throughout history societies have found ways of using this store of aggression, turning their adolescents into soldiers, cannon fodder with which to conquer their neighbors or defend themselves against their aggressors.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

“He was a committed ladies' man and obtained a great deal of sustenance from the seemingly inexhaustible supply of women, but he guarded himself vigilantly against addiction, fearful of becoming fodder for that feminine allure which is so paradoxically generous to those who take from it and so destructively cruel to those who give.”
― Lyudmila Ulitskaya

“While many people call it ‘The Military’, I call it “Corporate Government Cannon Fodder’.”
― Steven Magee

“Today is the fodder of tomorrow’s dreams, so we’d be wise to invest in today so that we don’t show up with empty hands tomorrow.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough