“I have nothing to give my friend, so I give you my life to amplify your might”
Source: When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation
“Giving up things you don't have is easy. It's easy to become a monk when your pockets are empty. It’s easy to become a minion when your dreams are empty. The real sacrifice is to give up something you love from every core of your heart.”
“Le ha salvado y al hacerlo se ha sacrificado”
Source: The castle
“In your love the world will find its way - in your strength the world will find its courage - in your light the world will witness its future.”
Source: Solo Standing on Guard: Life Before Law
“The whole world will fall short for my army of unarmed humanitarians.”
Source: Solo Standing on Guard: Life Before Law
“After the sacrifice of value, after the sacrifice of representation, after the sacrifice of reality, the West is now characterized by the deliberate sacrifice of everything through which a human being keeps some value in his or her own eyes.
The terrorists' potlatch against the West is their own death. Our potlatch is indignity, immodesty, obscenity, degradation and abjection. This is the movement of our culture - where the stakes keep rising. Our truth is always on the side of unveiling, desublimation, reductive analysis - the truth of the repressed -- exhibition, avowal, nudity - nothing is true unless it is desecrated, objectified, stripped of its aura, or dragged onstage.”
Source: The Agony of Power
“Light doesn't say 'o look at me, I am so bright' - all it does is shine.”
Source: Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine
“When I was small, my mother told me that moths were butterflies that had been banished to the night, where they lived tortured lives dreaming of the day. In this way she explained why they sacrificed themselves to flame; it was both an end to their suffering and a reunion with the light they longed for.
The parable, of course, was meant to warn me against wanting what I should not have.”
Source: Burning Marguerite
“Yamamoto sensed a feeling of culmination about the huge success of the first strike, and the same incisive intuition that guided his brilliant moves at the gaming tables told him what the next move on the bridge of Akagi would be. In (Vice Admiral) Nagumo he knew his man. Nagumo had never been committed to the Pearl Harbor mission. He had not been Yamamoto’s choice to command the Striking Force; his assignment was the decision of the Navy Ministry in Tokyo, based on seniority. While the exultation of the officers and sailors on his staff swirled around him, Yamamoto sat quietly. Finally, he fixed a steely gaze on his chief of staff, and in a low, intense voice: “Admiral Nagumo is going to withdraw.”
Source: Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
“Could not God just forgive us without having to hurt something or someone?”