Dogs of War Quotes

“Sometimes it is hard because we have to make choices. I remember when having to make choices scared me more than anything else except Master being angry with me. Now I know that making choices is the price of being free.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Dogs of War

“Change hurts, but it hurts most those who shackle themselves to the past.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Dogs of War

“I have a vision of tomorrow’s war, between people who have made themselves the slaves of entities that only exist in the heads of men, and people who want to be free. I hope I am wrong.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Dogs of War

“Because in five years, or ten, we’ll look back on all those creatures we killed, and we’ll know that we did a terrible thing just because the weathervane of popular opinion was spinning at the time.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Dogs of War

“We are here because we are dangerous. I do not understand: they made us to be dangerous. I do not see how they can be surprised when we were.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Dogs of War

“Being free means the responsibility to make the right choice.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Dogs of War

“My name is Rex. I am a Good Dog.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Dogs of War

“Bees’ channel: Killing humans is what we are for. Dragon’s channel: Killing humans is even what humans are for.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Dogs of War

“Hartnell had no idea what Murray would be doing with his life if he wasn’t ordering animals to kill people in the name of a shadowy junta of ousted special interests. Probably something in investment banking or venture capitalism, any trade where an utter inability to empathise with the people he hurt was considered a positive boon.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Dogs of War

“For I am change. I am the flag of the future and the scourge of the past. The old order is the phoenix egg I am born from, but to fly I may have to burn them, or they will clip my wings.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Dogs of War

“I never wanted to have choices. Choices are hard. Choices can be wrong.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Dogs of War

“The longer we go without barking, the more they will come to the bars of our cage and taunt us and prod us.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Dogs of War

“I know about free and price and why anything that is for free is not to be trusted.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Dogs of War

“My mind wants me to do things because I can smell all this fear, and the fear is crying out for me to act on it. It seems a shame to waste all that fear.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Dogs of War

“I tell myself I have been a Good Dog. Nobody else can decide that for me.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Dogs of War

“The cage is now a much quieter place. I thought this would make the humans happy but they are more frightened than before. When we were barking and fighting and shouting they did not like us. Now we just sit and watch them, they like us even less. I do not understand them.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Dogs of War

“not fighting for, just fighting against.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Dogs of War

“Technology is not Good Tech or Bad Tech. It is the Master who is guilty for what it does.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Dogs of War

“Now I know that making choices is the price of being free.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Dogs of War

“They’re going to exterminate them, Aslan knew then. From concentration camps to gas chambers. And the courts that were made to punish genocide are going to be making it happen.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Dogs of War

“And I know that corporations are good and useful things: every Bioform ever made was built by one. But they are good servants. They can only be bad masters. What is it that these scientists and guards and the Moray have been made slaves to? It is an entity without an intelligence, without the ability to choose between right and wrong.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Dogs of War

“I understand more now than I did. I know that fear does not just mean that they want to run away. Humans destroy the things they are scared of.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Dogs of War

“Some fought in the same war I did. Others were in other battles, in other parts of the world. We exchange our war stories. Once you take away heat and cold, wet and dry, they all come down to the same thing.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Dogs of War

“Probably something in investment banking or venture capitalism, any trade where an utter inability to empathise with the people he hurt was considered a positive boon.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Dogs of War

“Life is constant creation, change and destruction. The trick is knowing one from the other.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Dogs of War

“The timer ticks. Some numbers only go down.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Dogs of War

“The longer we go without barking, the more they will come to the bars of our cage and taunt us and prod us. Over and over they will do it. And we only need to snap at them once for them to call us animals.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Dogs of War

“Looking back I feel ashamed about how little I understood at the time. Then I feel ashamed about how little I understand now, because I know there are gaps in what I know, but how can I know how big those gaps are? We can never know what it is we don’t know.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Dogs of War

“The master of the Morrow labs hierarchy is Morrow Incorporated. That is what everyone must obey: not a director or a shareholder or officer, but the entity itself. That is how they set it up, so that no human names would be associated with what was done here. And I know that corporations are good and useful things: every Bioform ever made was built by one. But they are good servants. They can only be bad masters.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Dogs of War

“The humans are dealing with change. They have had the planet to themselves for a long time. Now they share it with us. You persuaded them not to destroy us once. You showed them we were something like themselves.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Dogs of War