Bob Wilson

“It's the mark of a backward society - or a society moving backward - when decisions are made for women by men.”
― Melinda Gates, The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World

“A soldier’s duty…” Taylor intoned the last word in a voice of granite, “is to do an honest day’s work in dishonest times… and to make the best out of the worst fucking mess imaginable. It means… believing in your heart that some things are more important than your personal devils… or even your personal beliefs. It means the willingness to give up… everything.” Taylor sat back in his chair, never breaking eye contact. “And sometimes it just means lacing up your boots one more time when the whole world’s going to shit.”
― Ralph peters, The War in 2020

“Human beings may hate a distant enemy in theory, but they generally prefer to kill their neighbors.”
― Ralph Peters, Wars of Blood and Faith: The Conflicts That Will Shape the Twenty-First Century

“These books are so splendid, they frustrate readers conditioned to lesser historical fiction in which every Confederate officer was young, dashing, and raised with a free-black best friend on a progressive plantation, or that features a feisty, clandestinely educated, proto-liberated woman rebelling valiantly against the constricting patriarchal societies of bygone centuries (all the while wearing enthralling dresses). The first sort of novel romanticizes the past, the second euthanizes it. The”
― Ralph Peters, Hell or Richmond: A Novel