銀河英雄伝説 10 落日篇 [Ginga eiyū densetsu 10] Quotes

“Coincidence at the tactical level is nothing but the fragmentary afterglow of necessity at the strategic level.”
― Yoshiki Tanaka, Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Vol. 10: Sunset

“What’re politics to us?”—The very question proclaimed that its askers would be deprived of their rights. Politics always gets its revenge on those who scorn it. Anyone with the slightest imagination should understand as much.”
― Yoshiki Tanaka, Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Vol. 10: Sunset

“It is an attitude of dependency—a belief that even if one does nothing for oneself, a legendary hero will one day appear to slay the dragon—and it is entirely incompatible with what Ahle Heinessen taught, namely, self-determination, self-governance, self-control, and self-respect.”
― Yoshiki Tanaka, Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Vol. 10: Sunset

“Reinhard von Lohengramm was a foe of republican democracy in the gravest sense—not because he was a cruel and stupid ruler, but because he was just the opposite. The polar opposite of democratic republicanism is the longing for a savior—the idea that, because the people lack the ability to reform society, right its wrongs, and resolve its inconsistencies, they must await the arrival of a transcendental “great man.”
― Yoshiki Tanaka, Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Vol. 10: Sunset