Christopher Paolini Quotes

A Bayonet's contrition is nothing to the dead.

Does the commandment 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' mean nothing to us? Are we to interpret it as meaning 'Thou shalt not kill except on the grand scale,' or 'Thou shalt not kill except when the national leaders say to do so'?

If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting.

War means fighting, and fighting means killing.

I've been to war, and I know the consequences and sacrifice it takes. If we must fight, we fight to win.

The greatest warriors are the ones who fight for peace.

I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption.

In war it is necessary to kill as many people as possible -- such is the cynical logic of war. Brutality in a fight is unavoidable; have you seen how cruelly children fight in the streets?

If we fix it so's you can't make money on war, we'll all forget what we're killing folks for.

When you fight a war against a tyrant, who do you kill? You kill the victims of the tyrant.

War! When I but think of this word, I feel bewildered, as though they were speaking to me of sorcery, of the Inquisition, of a distant, finished, abominable, monstrous, unnatural thing. When they speak to us of cannibals, we smile proudly, as we proclaim our superiority to these savages. Who are the real savages? Those who struggle in order to eat those whom they vanquish, or those who struggle merely to kill?

I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion , now .

He hasn't accepted his death. He is already fighting hard to stay alive. Which also means that kind Peeta Mellark, the boy who gave me bread, is fighting hard to kill me.

All my life, from birth, it's been a fight. And it always seemed to be another man's war. I always seemed to be fighting for someone else. But it always came back to me. The Word says we're born into sin, and sin always comes back to war.

You cannot talk about winning the war as long as there's killing and destruction on daily basis.

The lamp of war is kindled here, not to be extinguished but by torrents of blood.

What are we fighting for? What are we killing for? What do you see when you look into the future?

War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.

I miss the good old days when Daimons were warriors and combat trained. The ones I found tonight knew nothing about fighting, and I’m sick of the whole ‘my gun will solve all’ mentality. (Wulf)

The so-called Christian virtues of humility, love, charity, personal freedom, the strong prohibitions against violence, murder, stealing, lying, cruelty-all these are washed away by war. The greatest hero is the one who kills the most people. Glamorous exploits in successful lying and mass stealing and heroic vengeance are rewarded with decorations and public acclaim.

The gallantry and aggressive fighting spirit of the Russian soldiers command the American army's admiration.

Warriors make wars, but it is also true that, in what has so far been an endless reproductive cycle, war makes warriors.