My arguments were beginning to sound a little strained to me, too. I was in the position of a priest trying to sell religion.
If war is too important to trust to generals, then policy is too important to trust to politicians.
I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled towards absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion of us becomes a substitute for the broader opinion of the world. A...
I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled toward absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion of us becomes a substitute for the broader opinion of the world. An...
I am the Daughter of Night. I am the Child of Darkness Forthcoming. Come to my mother or become prey for the beasts of devastation in the Year of the Skulls.
Essentially, the mercenary sets morality aside, or at best reorders the customary structures to fit the needs of his way of life. The
Equal justice for all. As long as you make it yourself.
But maybe there is a force for greater good, created by our unconscious minds conjoined, that becomes an independent power greater than the sum of its parts.
Best way out, Elmo observed laconically, would be to kill everybody who knows anything, then all of us fall on our swords.Sounds a little extreme, Goblin opined. But if you want to go first, I’m right...
About you and me, Croaker and his gang, the Lady, Silent, Darling. About all the things we had in common but still couldn’t get along. I didn’t see all that much you had in common. Not once you got pa...
A guy I worked with and I talked it over about what you do with drunks. His dad was a reformed drunk. He told me you got to stop trying to help them out. You got to stop making excuses for them and no...
A field of scarlet with nine hanged men in black and six yellow daggers in the upper left and lower right quadrants, respectively, while the upper right quandrant featured a shattered skull and the lo...
'Did I snore again last night?'-'You solidified your grasp on the all-time women's championship. You're ready to compete at the next level.
If each man picks an evil and attacks it relentlessly, how long can evil persist?That was an easy one. Forever. More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way.
Goblin, that was a dumb stunt.- It sure was. Made me feel forty years younger.
Money has no provenance. It’s never dirty, only the people who handle it are.
An iron law of warfare. No matter how clever you are at finding a new tool, your opponent will come up with a counter long before that can possibly be convenient for you.
We abjure labels. We fight for money and an indefinable pride. The politics, the ethics, the moralities, are irrelevant.
Truth is a deadly weapon, Lady said.
These boys both fell out of the ugly tree at a young age, hitting every damned branch on the way down. Then their mommas whupped them with an ugly stick and fed them ugly soup every day of their lives...