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Dogs of War (Dogs of War, #1) QUOTES

Dogs of War (Dogs of War, #1) QUOTES

1 " There are still fierce pressure groups shouting about letting go of humanity, but they are the same groups who cry that Bioforms are less than human. One day the world will be ready to accept that humanity, just as it not constrained by skin colour, gender or nation, is not a condition penned into any one shape. "

― Adrian Tchaikovsky , Dogs of War (Dogs of War, #1)

2 " Sometimes it is hard because we have to make choices. I remember when having to make choices scared me more than anything else except Master being angry with me. Now I know that making choices is the price of being free. "

― Adrian Tchaikovsky , Dogs of War (Dogs of War, #1)

3 " Because in five years, or ten, we’ll look back on all those creatures we killed, and we’ll know that we did a terrible thing just because the weathervane of popular opinion was spinning at the time. "

― Adrian Tchaikovsky , Dogs of War (Dogs of War, #1)

4 " We are here because we are dangerous. I do not understand: they made us to be dangerous. I do not see how they can be surprised when we were. "

― Adrian Tchaikovsky , Dogs of War (Dogs of War, #1)

5 " I have a vision of tomorrow’s war, between people who have made themselves the slaves of entities that only exist in the heads of men, and people who want to be free. I hope I am wrong. "

― Adrian Tchaikovsky , Dogs of War (Dogs of War, #1)

6 " Hartnell had no idea what Murray would be doing with his life if he wasn’t ordering animals to kill people in the name of a shadowy junta of ousted special interests. Probably something in investment banking or venture capitalism, any trade where an utter inability to empathise with the people he hurt was considered a positive boon. "

― Adrian Tchaikovsky , Dogs of War (Dogs of War, #1)

7 " Change hurts, but it hurts most those who shackle themselves to the past. "

― Adrian Tchaikovsky , Dogs of War (Dogs of War, #1)

8 " My name is Rex. I am a Good Dog. "

― Adrian Tchaikovsky , Dogs of War (Dogs of War, #1)

9 " Bees’ channel: Killing humans is what we are for. Dragon’s channel: Killing humans is even what humans are for. "

― Adrian Tchaikovsky , Dogs of War (Dogs of War, #1)

10 " Do I say 'This is where it starts?' There's nowhere where it starts. Life is constant creation, change and destruction. The trick is knowing one from the other. "

― Adrian Tchaikovsky , Dogs of War (Dogs of War, #1)

11 " I wonder if his master is telling him Good Kitty every time he snaps his jaws shut or whether that does not matter for cats. "

― Adrian Tchaikovsky , Dogs of War (Dogs of War, #1)

12 " Being free means the responsibility to make the right choice. "

― Adrian Tchaikovsky , Dogs of War (Dogs of War, #1)

13 " The timer ticks. Some numbers only go down. "

― Adrian Tchaikovsky , Dogs of War (Dogs of War, #1)

14 " Rex just watched him with that mutely accusing stare that dogs did so well. "

― Adrian Tchaikovsky , Dogs of War (Dogs of War, #1)

15 " They put the jobs out to tender, because apparently there was a global market in bands of armed men who were interested in freelance regime change. "

― Adrian Tchaikovsky , Dogs of War (Dogs of War, #1)

16 " I feel sad about Hart, then. Hart was not Master, but he was kind and I have good memories of him. And those good memories are now sad memories because all of them are tagged with my knowledge of his death. I try to remove these tags so I can enjoy the memories, but something goes wrong and I can't. "

― Adrian Tchaikovsky , Dogs of War (Dogs of War, #1)

17 " Bees it trying to calculate at what level of integrity she will cease to be Bees and just become... bees. I try to see a picture of this in my head and I cannot. Where will Bees go when there aren't enough bees? "

― Adrian Tchaikovsky , Dogs of War (Dogs of War, #1)

18 " Free is something I understand now. I know about free and price and why anything that is for free is not to be trusted. "

― Adrian Tchaikovsky , Dogs of War (Dogs of War, #1)

19 " Unless this bear was some bio-engineered diplomat, some first contact specialist of the new animal kingdom. Perhaps Redmark would make all its corporate statements through random fauna now. "

― Adrian Tchaikovsky , Dogs of War (Dogs of War, #1)

20 " For I am change. I am the flag of the future and the scourge of the past. The old order is the phoenix egg I am born from, but to fly I may have to burn them, or they will clip my wings. "

― Adrian Tchaikovsky , Dogs of War (Dogs of War, #1)