15 Quotes by Elliot Ackerman

Wars have economies. And I don't mean financial economies, although that's often part of it. Why do people continue fighting these wars? There are financial incentives.

Like the bottom of a lake, the trees trapped a cold reminder that the sun struggles to touch all parts of the earth equally.

Politics,” he says, “can be defined as the acquisition or maintenance of power. You can do this in two ways: by either dividing people or uniting them. Uniting people is very difficult,” he explains, “but dividing them is far easier.

Damn Army’s a screwup factory. They take guys who aren’t screwed up, screw ’em up, then tell ’em they’re too screwed up to be a part of the screwup factory.

They’d all be buried together, and Haris imagined the seeds in the girl’s pocket growing shoots that would swaddle them beneath the earth, the barley sprouting upward, an unexpected crop reaching toward the sun.

The militants fought to protect us from the Americans and the Americans fought to protect us from the militants, and being so protected, life was very dangerous.