David Hair > Quotes

“In war, all choices are evil.”
― David Hair, Mage's Blood

“Life is a series of transactions. We all give to receive.”
― David Hair, Ascendant's Rite

“Beauty is a myth, he thought. Compatability is more important.”
― David Hair, Unholy War

“Infamy, infamy, you’ve all got it in for me,’ Dubrayle drawled.”
― David Hair, Hearts of Ice

“All some people ever want is a purpose; they’d sell their souls to the man who gave them one.”
― David Hair, The Scarlet Tides

“Law,’ she sneered derisively, ‘that’s just the current opinion of whoever’s in power – it’s got nothing to do with what’s right.”
― David Hair, Mage's Blood

“People do the worst evil when they do not have to take responsibility themselves but can blame others.”
― David Hair, Mage's Blood

“You have the power to rule, but does it also give you the right?”
― David Hair, Unholy War

“To all religions, those outside the faith are heathen, an enemy whose very existence endangers the soul, for if the heathen can exist without God, their example undermines the faithful. Therefore all religions are at war with those who deny them.”
― David Hair, Mage's Blood

“My father said that you would never leave a wounded man on the field!’ Langstrit winced. ‘That’s just ballads and poetry, boy. In war, all choices are evil.”
― David Hair, Mage's Blood

“It’s a good thing that we humans have human limitations. A god’s wrath is too terrible .”
― David Hair, Ascendant's Rite

“Some say that military might is the pinnacle of power; others that the way to real dominance is the control of minds through religion. Still more claim that social rank or wealth is the key. But I have always held that knowledge is supreme: know more than others and the rest will follow.”
― David Hair, Unholy War

“If the men believed that the man in charge of them was competent and would see them right, they’d do as they were told. Men who didn’t believe in that leadership did as they pleased and destroyed the cohesion of the whole.”
― David Hair, Unholy War

“It’s the oldest game in the world: claim your God is the only one and your enemies automatically become evil.”
― David Hair, Mage's Blood

“Most of the world’s biggest liars claim to speak for God.”
― David Hair, Mage's Blood

“you need to think of the destination you want, and then work out the road.”
― David Hair, Mage's Blood

“How can they claim to oppose evil when they do these things? You can’t clean floors with a bucket of blood.”
― David Hair, The Scarlet Tides

“Some things in life are only possible for the young and malleable.”
― David Hair, Unholy War

“It’s much easier to love a martyr than a living person.”
― David Hair, Ascendant's Rite

“All gods are equal. Equally imaginary.”
― David Hair, The Scarlet Tides

“Truth is Perception”. It means that what you believe, however right or wrong, that is your truth, and it will be shaped by who you are, what you’ve seen, your gender, your race, your religion, your history. So when Godspeaker Acmed tells you that the Jhafi don’t love the Nesti, do not tell him that he is wrong and they do! Listen to him, and ask yourself: “Why is this their Truth?”, and “What can I learn from this?”
― David Hair, Mage's Blood

“It was hard to understand why people would choose to live in tiny houses in piss-rank alleys in stinking cities where the air was smoke-laden and the water polluted, when you could live out here. There was probably a reason, but right now it didn’t feel good enough.”
― David Hair, The Scarlet Tides

“books written by poisonous old men who hate women and hate love because they’ll never know it and don’t want anyone else to put something ahead of their god. Everything pleasurable in life is anathema to them, because the only happiness they acknowledge is some paradise you can only reach by dying!”
― David Hair, Unholy War