Chad Biro

“Tradition. What gravity indeed does that word impart! What power it wields! As it roots us and grounds us and gives us hope for who we are because of who we were, so it also wreaks destruction and denies change. I would never pretend to understand another people well enough to demand that they change their traditions, yet how foolish it seems to me to hold fast and unyieldingly to those mores and ways without regard for any changes that have taken place in the world about us.”
― R.A. Salvatore, The Crystal Shard

“The world is not static, and if the roots of our perceptions, traditions, hold static, then we are doomed, I say, into destructive dogma. Then we fall upon the darker blade of that double-edged sword.”
― R.A. Salvatore, The Crystal Shard

“In a time of peace, you have the luxury of order, but in war you must act. Hesitation is death.”
― Terry Goodkind, Temple of the Winds

“We know, better than most, perhaps, that soldiers are charged with protecting peace and life itself. The balance to that is that we sometimes must take life to stay an enemy who would do greater harm. For this, we are remembered, not for the lives we try to preserve.”
― Terry Goodkind, Temple of the Winds