539 Quotes by James S.A. Corey

Prepare us for what?” Holden asked. “To poke gods with a sharp stick?” “No, Captain Holden. No sticks,” Duarte said. “When you fight gods, you storm heaven.

In his opinion, faith was generally for people who were bad at math.

Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas. It’s attractive because it’s simple, it’s direct, it’s almost always available as an option. When you can’t think of a good rebuttal for your opponent’s argument, you can always punch them in the face.

But pacifism only works when your enemy has a conscience.

Distributed responsibility is the problem. One person gives the order, another carries it out. One can say they didn’t pull the trigger, the other that they were just doing what they were told, and everyone lets themselves off the hook.

You can’t take the Razorback,” he said to the tiny red triangles. “We are gone and gone and gone.

Nothing degraded morale like the sense that the potential for excellence was being denied.

They weren’t really stopping, of course. Nothing in space ever actually stopped; it only came into a matching orbit with some other object. They were now following CA-2216862 on its merry millennium-long trip around the sun.

In a fight like this, unless you’re willing to lose everything to win, you lose it all by losing.