The Red Sea Quotes

“How would we even know who to help?" "Easy rule of thumb: you help the side whose village is being burned. In all the wars we've seen, have you ever known the village-burners to be on the right side of justice?”
― Edward W. Robertson, The Red Sea

“Well, now that you have your own command, I can let you into the Secret Leaders' Club. The only truth we've managed to confirm is this: none of us has the faintest idea what we're doing.”
― Edward W. Robertson, The Red Sea

“Leadership was like flowing water. Sometimes, your people took courses you didn't expect. All you could do was follow the stream and see where it led you.”
― Edward W. Robertson, The Red Sea

“Maybe someday I'll learn to tell the future. Until then, all we can do is what we've done: make each choice the best we can. And hope, in time, that takes us where we want to be.”
― Edward W. Robertson, The Red Sea

“People like to pretend there's nothing more important than family. That they'd sacrifice anything for it. But parents abandon their children every day. Kids forsake their parents. Brothers betray each other. There's nothing sacred about blood. Family isn't sacred, it's an ideal. We all have to break our ideals sometime. But having them gives us something to live up to.”
― Edward W. Robertson, The Red Sea