3 Lois McMaster Bujold Quotes on Victory

Lois McMaster Bujold quotes on victory

36. The loonies who sought a glorious death in battle found it very early on. This rapidly cleared the chain of command of the accumulated fools. The survivors were those who learned to fight dirty, and live, and fight another day, and win, and win, and win, and for whom nothing, not comfort, or security, not family for friends for their immortal souls, was more important than winning. Dead men are losers by definition. Survival and victory. They weren't supermen, or immune to pain. They sweated in confusion and darkness. And ... they won.

85. There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.

121. Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.