Unfriendly Fire/Quotes

"Since I can’t choose my commanding officer, if he ends up being like the legendary soldier who ruined the Burma-Imphal front, I may decide to take action and mourn the ensuing “unfortunate accident.”"

- Saga of Tanya the Evil

"I've found that by-the-book commissars tend to die heroically for the Emperor, even when the enemy is suspiciously far away."

- Ciaphas Cain

"We've killed officers in blue coats, officers in red coats, even officers in white coats; because I don't care what army an officer fights for, or what colour coat he wears, or what king he serves. A bad officer is better off dead, and a good soldier had better learn how to kill him."

- Sharpe lays it out to a troop of new recruits, while their officer in a white coat watches on.

"Commodore Fesler, an interesting statistic: Did you know that half of all officer deaths on the battlefield are the result of assassination by subordinates?"

- Colonel Grand, Fullmetal Alchemist