C.S. Friedman quotes

“Civilized man longs for the illusion of barbarism. Either his culture fulfills this need by adopting its outer trappings, or he will be seduced by his first contact with a culture that does.”
-- C.S. Friedman

Source : C.S. Friedman (2001). “In Conquest Born”, p.44, Penguin

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“What is a child?" he asks her. The diamond gaze does not flinch. "Creatures that are sold on the street by their parents, to get the coin to make more children." She paused. "Adults sell themselves.”
-- C.S. Friedman

Source : C.S. Friedman (2008). “Feast of Souls: Book One of the Magister Trilogy”, p.28, Penguin

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“I sold my soul for knowledge of the future, only to have that very pact render me forever ignorant (Gerald Tarrant).”
-- C.S. Friedman

Source : C.S. Friedman (1994). “When True Night Falls: The Coldfire Trilogy, Book Two”, p.301, Penguin

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“In a world where data is coin of the realm, and transmissions are guarded by no better sentinels than man-made codes and corruptible devices, there is no such thing as a secret.”
-- C.S. Friedman

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“All about us were people. Perhaps a hundred. Men. Experience had taught me that humans were cruelest when segregated by sex, and the cold feeling in the pit of my stomach became led. What had I let myself in for?”
-- C.S. Friedman

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“The more complex our security becomes, the more complex our enemy's efforts must be.The more we seek to shut him out, the better he must learn to become at breaking in.Each new level of security that we manage becomes no more than a stepping-stone for him who would surpass us, for he bases his next assault upon our best defenses.It is a ware that can never truly be won… but one we dare not lose.”
-- C.S. Friedman

Source : C.S. Friedman (1999). “This Alien Shore”, p.32, Penguin

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“A man does not truly understand his limitations until he has tested them.”
-- C.S. Friedman

Source : C.S. Friedman (2001). “In Conquest Born”, p.350, Penguin

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“Tomorrow could not get better if one failed to survive today.”
-- C.S. Friedman

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“We may not preach a crucified Saviour without being also crucified men and women. It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration. The cross that Paul speaks about was burned into his very flesh, was branded into his being, and only the Holy Spirit can burn the true cross into our innermost life.”

“God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.”

“We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?”

“History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.”

“Yeah, I want to be liked, obviously. Everybody does.”

Source : "Milwaukee Talks: QB Aaron Rodgers, May 2008". Interview with Jason Wilde, onmilwaukee.com. May 23, 2008.

“What we need now for quickening is not so much money and wisdom as the spirit of supplication. Pray for yourself until the new life is infused. When that new life comes, it will lead you to pray for others.”

“Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.”

“I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.”

“My success is not measured in money. I have no financial security, I have no savings account. I measure my success by asking myself if I’m telling a story that the world needs to hear, if I am educating people.”

“Opportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today.”

Source : Twitter post from May 08, 2013