Steadfast Quotes

“If the people of Old Earth, our ancestors and their descendants today who remain, could keep building, could keep trying, how can we do less? We are their children, and while we bought to the stars with us all the faults and the problems and the flaws of the past, we also bought the good things, the determination, and the willingness to help others, and the imagination to build things greater then every shortcoming humanity has ever known.”
― Jack Campbell, Steadfast

“You know, like that old Catch 42 expression that stands for the meaning of life is that in the end you always get screwed.”
― Jack Campbell, Steadfast

“Geary looked at Dr. Nasr, running the physician’s words through his mind. “We need to be sure we’re asking the right question in order to get the right answer? Is that what you’re saying?” “Yes. If you only think you know the question, the answers you come up with will not be adequate or correct.”
― Jack Campbell, Steadfast

“Honor isn’t about how others treat you. Honor is about how you treat others. The only way to gain true honor is to respect and honor other people. The only true way to defend your own honor is to defend the rights and persons of other people. Treat others as you would wish to be treated.”
― Jack Campbell, Steadfast

“how little we know even today about the most fundamental things.”
― Jack Campbell, Steadfast

“It is something anyone in power must fear, being surrounded by the flatterers and fools who say only what they think the powerful want to hear.”
― Jack Campbell, Steadfast