7 quotes
"Why must there be war?" "Oh Lavinia, what a woman's question that is! Because men are men."
Lavinia (2008)
After hard fighting, when six or seven men had been wounded or killed, the war chiefs on both sides would simultaneously declare a victory.
Changing Planes (2003)
If civilization has an opposite, it is war.
The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)
Little generals and painted gods raise armies to waste lives and goods and spoil the sacred earth.
Men who fight wars in Winter don’t live till Spring.
Planet of Exile (1966)
What you love, you will love. What you undertake you will complete. You are a fulfiller of hope; you are to be relied on. But seventeen years give little armor against despair...Consider, Arren. To refuse death is to refuse life.
The Farthest Shore (1972)
Light is the left hand of darkness
and darkness the right hand of light.
Two are one, life and death, lying
together like lovers in kemmer,
like hands joined together,
like the end and the way.
The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)