The Warriors Quotes

“Anyone who threatens the status quo, no matter how humane and sensible the reason, is usually accused of being a radical of the most extreme sort. Perhaps it doesn’t happen without cause. Perhaps any time you do threaten the status quo, you are a radical. You’re in good company, however. When your great-great-grandfather Kent fired his musket at Concord Bridge, he upset the status quo with a vengeance. But he was right. So are you. In the end, nothing else matters.”
― John Jakes, The Warriors

“scalawags—Southerners who turned their backs on their own people in order to ally themselves with the Northern power bloc—”
― John Jakes, The Warriors

“The pessimistic thought was again counteracted by shame.”
― John Jakes, The Warriors

“I’ll tell you something about being able to go home. It seldom seems important until you can’t do it.”
― John Jakes, The Warriors

“The war’s military organization was an innocently conceived social society founded by a group, of bored veterans around Christmas 1865. In a law office in Pulaski, Tennessee, the veterans had created a secret fraternity called the Kuklos, after the Greek word for circle. Someone had added clan to reflect the area’s Scotch-Irish heritage, and the whole thing had been transmuted”
― John Jakes, The Warriors

“Anyone who threatens the status quo, no matter how humane and sensible the reason, is usually accused of being a radical of the most extreme sort.”
― John Jakes, The Warriors