The Chains of Commanding/Quotes: Difference between revisions

''Into this burning gate...''|'''''[[Iron Savior (Music)|Iron Savior]]''''', "Never Say Die"}}

{{quote|''He cursed himself for his refusal of their offer, even while his stubborn manhood revolted at the thought, and he knew that were he taken forth and given another chance, his reply would be the same. He would not sell his subjects to the butcher. And yet it had been with no thought of anyone's gain but his own that he had seized the kingdom originally. Thus subtly does the instinct of sovereign responsibility enter even a red-handed plunderer sometimes.''|''[[Conan the Barbarian]]'', ''[[The Scarlet Citadel (Literature)|The Scarlet Citadel]]''}}

''"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 Onon the Fourth Wall|You point, you click, and they die.]] It's how it works."''|'''[[Tiberium Wars (Fanfic)|Tiberium Wars]]''', ''Chapter XVIII''}}

'''Delenn:''' ''...The one who gave the order. Nothing can change that, Lennier.'' |'''[[Babylon Five5]]'''}}

{{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 (Literature)|Worlds Of Honor]]'''}}

{{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 (Webcomic)|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 (TV)|Stargate SG 1]]''}}