Seanan McGuire Quotes

We are fighting in our own house. It is useless to live on burned ruins.

If possible, try to avoid pushing each other over the edge, as that would cause me extra paperwork.

If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Of these two things, you have either one, or the other. Not both.

I had it then. Soda fought for fun, Steve for hatred, Darry for pride, and Two-Bit for conformity. Why do I fight? I thought, and couldn't think of any real good reason. There isn't any real good reason for fighting except self-defense.

Most people are only too delighted to wreck each other's heads. And for the tiny minority who do their pathetic best not to, this world is going to go right ahead and make sure they do it anyway.

I mean when was the last time we had one of these contract signings... that didn't end... in some sort of horrible physical calamity? So if you wanna cut to the chase, you know, we can flip the table over, we can all start beating each other up or we can at least make this entertaining.

The present war is the saturation point in violence. It spells, to my mind, also its doom.

Now I see Peace to corrupt no less than war to waste.

I don't think that there is a person that I've met - I'm sure there are - that I've had any conflict with.

Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever.

To be honest with you, most of the times I have fought, there has been a reason.

We live in a world of guns, bombs and terror. To conquer hate seems a nigh-impossible task.

I suspect that war will become obsolete only when something worse supercedes it.

I don't know what is to be done. This isn't war.

The violent will not come to a natural end.

Fighting is not my life.

We see leaders in social media starting fights. I'm on the other team who likes to inspire, to leave a positive message.

Fighting lives and dies; you can't fight forever.

If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.

What’s so civil about war anyway?

War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.

Without love, violence will change the world; it will change it into a more violent one.

All the world does as it is supposed to, except for humans. Maybe that's why you so often want to kill each other.

The peak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.