Midnight: North & South Game Inspiration Quotes

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"There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true." --Sir Winston Churchill
"I believe in one thing only, the power of the human will." --Joseph Stalin
"Death is not the worst that can happen to men." --Plato
"Sometimes you have to do things that you hate so you can survive to fight on another day." --Number Six (Tricia Helfer) on Battlestar Galactica
"I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death." --Patrick Henry(1736 - 1799), (Virginia Convention, March 23, 1775)
"And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence." --William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Macbeth", Act 1 scene 3
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." --Friedrich Nietzsche

the orcs

"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week." - George S Patton
"Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory." - George S Patton
"Orcs love to fight. All real orcs love the sting of battle." - George S Patton (changed "Americans" to "orcs").
"Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more." - GSP

Some for the Dorn, from the same man

"Better to fight for something than live for nothing". - George S Patton
"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank our forefathers that such men lived." - George S Patton (changed "God" to "our forefathers").

One for the hermetic channeler or other lore-boy

And one for the slightly more peaceful resistance fighter

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

The visionary resistance fighter

"I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all." - Richard Wright

Something for the urban game

"In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time." - W. Somerset Maugham

Something for the redeemed hero

"Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living." - Hellen Keller

Justification of the actions of the antihero

"Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people." - Carl Jung

The dogma of the collaborator channeler

"Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness." - Carl Jung

And one for the late Sahi in Sunulael

"To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be." - Frank Herbert

How about something for the fatalist

"And the darkness of the night is soon full of the fallen shadows of our failures." - William H Gass (changed "our bedroom" to "the night".

One for the traitor prince

"A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." - Jean Genet

Dogma of the fanatic legate

"A man can no more diminish Izrador's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the darkness by scribbling the word, 'light' on the walls of his cell." - C. S. Lewis (changed "God" to "Izrador", "sun" to "darkness" and "darkness" to "light".)

For the Han-Solo'ish good-bye ("Then I'll see you in hell!")

Gothy one, which I nevertheless liked

"In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death." - Tom Wolfe

Out-of game inspiration for the demoralized player