SHADOW KILLERS 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

• "There is no darkness but ignorance." - William Shakespeare

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!")

• "See you in the darkness." - Gary Gilmore

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

• "Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness." - Yousuf Karsh

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Midnight: the SHADOW KILLERS