92 Quotes by Karen Traviss

"I fail to understand why gethes (Humans), talk about individuals versus society. They are the same thing. The action of every individual counts, and those individual acts of personal responsibility accumulate to create society. Snowflakes are equally blind to their role in causing avalanches."

"We have complete choice as individuals: the only decisions we can take are our own. And yet so many species use the state of being an individual as an excuse for inaction, helplessness and irresponsibility.No situation is so overwhelming that action is pointless. Targassat of Surang."

"You think she's got a personality disorder?" "No, she's just a nasty bitch. An unpleasant personality isn't a medical condition. Just a symptom of not being slapped around the head enough."

"Humans would never tell the simple truth when a lie was available...."

"Bury me the ONI way. Fill me up with explosives and use me as a booby trap."

"If you were a nomad, your nation traveled in your heart. And without the Mando heart, you had nothing -not even your soul- in whatever new conquest followed death"

"In this job, you handpick your people. You need the best. You need the most loyal. You need the most ruthless."

"I bet you were a Boy Scout.""You are incomprehensible.""It's just a compliment."

"Hope was evil. It seduced you, then it dropped you on your ass so hard and so fast that you were worse off than when you started."

"My books deliberately provide no answers or messages. Im drilled in the habit of objectivity and also aware that the steady drip of fiction has more power than facts to shape opinion, so I handle it with caution."