The Chains of Commanding/Quotes: Difference between revisions

▲{{quote|''"Being a leader isn't easy," Parker continued. "You get all these speeches asking 'Are you worthy' or 'know yourself to lead others' and that nonsense, but ultimately, it boils down to a simple question: can you live with condemning sons and daughters and fathers and mothers to their deaths?"''

▲''He took another long drink.''

▲''"We forge futures out of pain and grief, Commander. [[He Who Fights Monsters|The computers and the communications officers and the EVAs and the displays only serve to isolate us so we can be inhuman.]] We're monsters, son. Cold, mechanical, rational monsters, and the only way we win is by being colder, more mechanical, and more rational than the next monster moving his little pieces on the screen. That's how war has been fought since Stalin rolled into the Allies a century ago. [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall|You point, you click, and they die.]] It's how it works."''|'''[[Tiberium Wars]]''', ''Chapter XVIII''}}

▲{{quote|'''Lennier:''' ''Then you were not thinking clearly, Delenn. The fault is not yours. The humans misinterpreted the gesture of respect. They thought it to be a prelude to an attack. You were...''

▲'''Delenn:''' ''...The one who gave the order. Nothing can change that, Lennier.'' |'''[[Babylon 5]]'''}}

▲{{quote|''Dammit. She was sure there were thousands of people simply '''dying''' to be King or Queen! Why couldn't she just pick one of them and pass the job to someone who actually wanted it.''|'''[[Honor Harrington|Worlds Of Honor]]'''}}

▲{{quote|''It's not fair. I never asked them to make me Emperor.''|'''[[Belisarius Series|Destiny's Shield]]'''}}

▲{{quote|''I look out my window each day. I look out my window at people who live and breathe. At people who have not been devoured by civil war. At people who have not been ravaged by disease. At people who have not starved to death, who have not been hacked apart by enemies of humanity, at people who are free to lie and steal and plot and complain and accuse and behave in all manner of repugnant ways because the Realm stands. Because law and order stands. Because something other than simple violence shapes the course of their lives. And I look...at a very few decent people who have had the luxury of living their lives without being called upon to make hideous decisions I would not wish upon my worst enemies, and who consequently find such matters morally appalling when they consider them — because they have not had to be the ones who dealt with them.''|''Gaius Sextus'', '''[[Codex Alera]]'''}}

▲'''Joan:''' ''Got news for you; it doesn't get any easier.''|''[[Covert Affairs]]''}}

▲'''Mrs Johnson:''' ''He can't.''

▲'''Doctor:''' ''Indentured servitude?''

▲'''Mrs Johnson:''' ''[[King Incognito|...Something of that nature, yes.]]''|''[[The King's Speech]]''}}

▲{{quote|''Williams. Listen to me. I'm in command. I chose to leave {{spoiler|Alenko}} behind, not you. He's dead because of me.''|'''Commander Shepard''', ''[[Mass Effect]]''}}

▲{{quote|''No. [[Reasonable Authority Figure|[Ruling]]] gives me no pleasure. Politics '''always''' annoyed me. Now I do it '''every day'''. I haven't seen my '''wife''' in years. My old friends are gone. I haven't travelled or explored. At least with the Heterodynes we had the '''adventures'''. The occasional '''fight'''. Now it's send in the armies, then the bureaucrats with mops. It's become an old formula. Well, we do what we '''must'''.''|'''[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20040114 Baron Klaus Wulfenbach]''', ''[[Girl Genius]]''}}

▲{{quote|''My personal opinion says 'yes' but the government policies underwhich I must weight my decision say 'no'.''|'''General Hammond''' ''[[Stargate SG-1|Stargate SG 1]]''}}