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War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It’s peace that’s wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
The Vor Game (1990)
“This isn’t a good war game, Dad says,” commented Miles. “Not enough random factors and uncontrolled surprises to simulate reality.”
The Vor Game (1990)
A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
The Vor Game (1990)
It could be worse was always an unassailable assertion.
The Vor Game (1990)
Mercenaries thrive on other people’s chaos.
The Vor Game (1990)
There is no moral difference between ordering an execution, and carrying it out.
The Vor Game (1990)
Home is where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
The Vor Game (1990)
“Face like an angel, mind like a rabid mongoose?”
Oser’s lips twitched very slightly. “You’ve met her.”
The Vor Game (1990)
“Is she pretty?”
“Yeah, if you happen to like blond power-mad homicidal maniacs, I suppose she could be quite overwhelming.”
The Vor Game (1990)
The facts appear to be mutating every forty minutes. like bacteria.
The Vor Game (1990)
Beware of wishing for justice. You might get it.
The Vor Game (1990)
The job was interesting for a week, while he was learning it, mind-numbing after that.
The Vor Game (1990)
I may be small, but I screw up big because I’m standing on the shoulders of GIANTS.
The Vor Game (1990)
Your moral scruples may be admirable, Miles, but I’m not sure I can afford them.
The Vor Game (1990)
If we shouldn’t do it, we shouldn’t be able to do it.
The Vor Game (1990)
We don’t just march on the future, we charge it.
The Vor Game (1990)
Those who do not know their history, his thought careened, are doomed to keep stepping in it. Alas, so were those who did, it seemed.
The Vor Game (1990)
He’s not like anything, Ahn. He’s the original.
The Vor Game (1990)
Rule 1: Only overrule the tactical computer if you know something it doesn’t. Rule 2: The tac comp always knows more than you do.
The Vor Game (1990)
She could be the only person on Barrayar to automatically put Gregor the man before Gregor the emperor. All our ranks look like optical illusions to her, I think.
The Vor Game (1990)