6 Lois McMaster Bujold Quotes on Duty

Lois McMaster Bujold quotes on duty

6. Any community's arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity.

12. Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

51. Hi, I'm a hero, but I can't tell you why. It's classified.

83. I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

107. I suppose my determination to be a soldier stems from that date. I mean the real thing, not the parades and the uniforms and the glamour, but the logistics, the offensive advantage, the speed and surprise--the power. A better-prepared, stronger, toughter, faster, meaner son-of-a-bitch than any who came through that door.

111. He said that permitting private judgments to turn my duty in the smallest matter would be just like getting a little bit pregnant--that the consequences would very soon get beyond me.