Skip to content

War is a convenient fix for government problems if it happens somewhere else. To other people.

— Sherwood Smith Treason's Shore (2009)

Another quote →

Topics

More quotes by Sherwood Smith

Nothing is "always," my dear. Except the greater truths, one of which is that power begets politics, and politics are more dangerous than war because there are fewer rules.

Inda (2006)

Choose the duty that you can most effectively execute: that is, finally, all we can do in life.

A Stranger to Command (2008)

Judging the actions of the many by those of the one is both human and dangerous.

The Fox (2007)

'What if feeling good only comes after you destroy someone you hate?'

Remalna's Children (2011)

'Are they trained to treat everyone as a servant?'

Remalna's Children (2011)

All Sherwood Smith quotes →

You may also like

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

Albert Einstein Moral Decay (1937)

The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now.

Hunter S. Thompson

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

George Santayana Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922)

Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.

Ulysses S. Grant Personal Memoirs of General U. S. Grant (1885)

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Sherwood Smith (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.