The Profession Quotes

“Do not tell me death is real. It is not. I have sustained my heart for ages with the love my brother passed on to me, dead as he was.”
― Steven Pressfield, The Profession

“The American people... have had enough of sacrificing their sons and daughters in the name of some illusory world order; they want someone else’s sons and daughters to bear the burden. The American people are willing to pay for this privilege, in cash and in the circumscription of their own liberty.”
― Steven Pressfield, The Profession

“El-Masri lies under gravel and shingle, with no part of him visible aboveground except his left hand”
― Steven Pressfield, The Profession

“Our team has zero; has he got Close Air Support, drones, anything?”
― Steven Pressfield, The Profession

“Arabs lie. Let me tell you this, Gent, if you don’t know it already. We lie for fun, we lie for profit, we lie all the time, and we don’t even know why.”
― Steven Pressfield, The Profession

“What Westerners call corruption is just life in 75% of the world. Americans still don’t understand this. We think the rest of the planet is like us, or would be if it had the same advantages. We live in a bubble in the States. We make decisions and establish policy based on dream conceptions of the wider universe. We think everyone is the same as we are. We think they want the same things we want.

They don’t.

They’re not like us at all.”
― Steven Pressfield, The Profession