Uncompromising Honor Quotes

“The other side’s version,” Kolokoltsov thought. Even here, he’s not willing to call it “the truth.” Whoever said truth is the first casualty of war damned well knew what he was talking about!”
― David Weber, Uncompromising Honor

“They’re human beings, and the two things humans make are tools…and mistakes. But sometimes we get stuff right, too, and there are some really good models out there”
― David Weber, Uncompromising Honor

“People at the apex felt unbridled contempt for the people who spent their lives laboring to support their “betters” in the style to which they had become accustomed. After all, if those lesser being had mattered, they’d have been the ones making the decisions, right? The fact that they weren’t was directly attributable to their inherent inferiority and general stupidity, not the inequality of opportunity.”
― David Weber, Uncompromising Honor

“Battles aren’t always—or even usually—won by killing everybody on the other side. They’re won inside the other side’s brains and wills. Given the right weapons, the right tactical situation, anyone can kill an enemy. Convincing her to yield, to do what you set out to compel her to do without killing her—that’s harder.”
― David Weber, Uncompromising Honor

“Because she’s Honor Harrington,” the Empress of Manticore said softly. “Because she’s Honor Harrington.”
― David Weber, Uncompromising Honor

“She smiled, and somehow it was the most frightening smile Koenig had ever seen. “You won’t like it if that happens,” she said very, very softly, “but I will.”
― David Weber, Uncompromising Honor

“Prove they would, indeed, exact an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, however many millions of Solarians that killed, if that was what it took for the Mandarins to recognize sanity when they saw it? If the gloves really come off, who knows where the killing will stop…if it stops?”
― David Weber, Uncompromising Honor

“They really won’t like it if they make us do that. I only wish I felt more confident they had a clue that they won’t.”
― David Weber, Uncompromising Honor

“But we had to try, she thought drearily. We had to. Every single one of us would rather die trying to stop it than live knowing we’d stood by and let something like this happen.”
― David Weber, Uncompromising Honor

“And whatever they thought they might do to us, they damned well knew they weren’t going home. And it wasn’t even their star system.”
― David Weber, Uncompromising Honor

“It would take them longer, and every extra hour of delay was another hundred thousand lives saved.”
― David Weber, Uncompromising Honor

“So I’ll do it, and these people had better by God believe I will. And so should the next system on the Buccaneer list. In fact, running up the death toll here just might help that “next system” see the error of its ways without having to kill anyone there. The truth was that every life lost here might well save dozens of lives later.”
― David Weber, Uncompromising Honor

“I opposed secession. I thought that was the right decision. But I lost, and I happen to believe in the legal and political systems of Hypatia. I lost,” she repeated, “…and if this man—this monster—is going to come into my star system and murder hundreds of thousands of my fellow citizens, of my people, and tell me his actions have been approved by the Solarian League, then thank God I did.” She looked around the table again, her eyes like iron. “I don’t know about this ‘Mesan Alignment’ the Manticorans and the Havenites are talking about. I don’t know about an awful lot of things, but I just discovered how horribly wrong I’ve been about one thing I thought I did know. I thought I knew the Solarian League was worth saving.”
― David Weber, Uncompromising Honor

“and in the Solarian League, embarrassing a superior—especially one who deserved it—was the only truly unforgivable sin.”
― David Weber, Uncompromising Honor

“And, please, God, without Parthian on my conscience, she added silently.”
― David Weber, Uncompromising Honor

“If Tsang had made transit into the teeth of the unshaken Manticoran defenses, her entire fleet would have been massacred even more completely than Filareta’s had been. The politicians and the talking heads could say whatever they liked, but after what had happened to Eleventh Fleet, any naval officer with two brain cells to rub together knew what would have happened to Tsang would have been even worse. Far worse.”
― David Weber, Uncompromising Honor

“Kolokoltsov wondered if the others would be as appalled by it as he was? And whether or not they’d find themselves endorsing it anyway.”
― David Weber, Uncompromising Honor

“It’s the next best damned thing to an Eridani violation, but someone will.”
― David Weber, Uncompromising Honor

“And I understand Admiral Foraker’s already rung in some new variations on her sensor platforms. Once she and Hemphill sit down and put their heads together, the rest of the galaxy better hang onto its socks!”
― David Weber, Uncompromising Honor

“And they have finally killed too many of the people Honor Harrington loves. Hers is the voice of caution and compromise no longer, and the galaxy is about to see something it has never imagined.”
― David Weber, Uncompromising Honor

“The purpose of shooting someone as an object lesson is to convince other people to pay attention to it, and that takes time.”
― David Weber, Uncompromising Honor