16 quotes
When all choices seem wrong, choose restraint.
Shatterpoint (2004)
When you save someone's life. It's always temporary, y'know?
Shatterpoint (2004)
The troopers had not been fighting for themselves; they knew their lives were over. But they had never stopped. They were fighting for the regiment.
Shatterpoint (2004)
Jedi are supposed to stand for something, aren't you? You're supposed to stand up for what's right. No matter what.
Shatterpoint (2004)
Our enemy is power mistaken for justice. Our enemy is the desperation that justifies atrocity. The Jedi's true enemy is the jungle.
Shatterpoint (2004)
"You're in the jungle, now. There are no rules."
"Of course there are. Don't be an idiot."
Shatterpoint (2004)
I gave them the word of a Jedi Master that if they surrendered I would keep them from harm. I will not be made a liar.
Shatterpoint (2004)
We always volunteer, sir. All of us. It's who we are.
Shatterpoint (2004)
If no mistake you have made, yet losing you are... a different game you should play.
Shatterpoint (2004)
The first thing they did was pick up survivors. Because we are equipment, too. As long as the Republic takes care of us, we'll take care of it.
Shatterpoint (2004)
It is the pride of discovering that one is not merely a bundle of reflexes and conditioned responses; that instead one is a thinking being, who can choose the right over the easy, and justice over safety.
Shatterpoint (2004)
"But... but... you can't fight the way things are..."
"But we do. Every day. That's what Jedi are."
"You can never win-"
"We don't have to win. We only have to fight."
Shatterpoint (2004)
Mace stared at the man as though he'd never seen him before. And he hadn't: only now, finally, was he seeing him. An undistinguished little man: soft face and uncertain voice, shaky hands and allergies: an undistinguished little man who must have had resources of toughness that Mace could barely imagine.
Shatterpoint (2004)
"They lit us up! Missiles incoming! Six count, closing, dead astern!"
"Back-trace the missile lock and feed it to the computer for counter-fire."
"Great idea! I'll get right on that first thing as soon as I graduate from gunnery school!"
Shatterpoint (2004)
He was moderately sure that a thirteen-year-old boy who'd load up four other children and set out in a steamcrawler across the Korunnai Highland at night-a boy who'd rather die than leave an unconscious girl behind-had guts enough for just about anything.
Shatterpoint (2004)
Mace flipped up a thumb. "You think being armed and ruthless means you can do whatever you want." He folded his thumb and flipped up his forefinger. "You think nobody will stand up to you when they're naked." He folded that one again and flipped up the next. "And you think you're going to look inside my bag."
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