Debt of Honor
Tom Clancy
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Of all human lamentations, without doubt, the most common is if only I had known. But we can't know, and so days of death and fire so often begin no differently than those of love and warmth.”
“A lively discussion is usually helpful, because the hottest fire makes the hardest steel.”
“War is the ultimate criminal act, an armed robbery writ large. And it’s always about greed. It’s always a nation that wants something another nation has. And you defeat that nation by recognizing what it wants and denying it to them.”
“The remarkable thing was that everyone accepted the entire process, seemingly as normal as physical laws of nature, despite the fact that it was really as ethereal as a rainbow. The money did not physically exist. Even “real” money was only specially made paper printed with black ink on the front and green on the back. What backed the money was not gold or something of intrinsic value, but rather the collective belief that money had value because it had to have such value.”
“You have to know the things you don’t know. You have to figure out what the questions are before you can start looking for answers.”
“Diplomatic exchange combined the worst aspects of explaining things to a toddler and talking with a mother-in-law. It was dull, it was tedious, it was exasperating, and it was necessary.”
“What backed the money was not gold or something of intrinsic value, but rather the collective belief that money had value because it had to have such value.”
“We cannot fail to win—unless we fail to try.”
“Intelligence people are no different from anybody else. They have preconceptions, and when they see them in real life, it reinforces how brilliant they think they are.”
“Like many weak men, he made a great ceremony of personal strength and power.”
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Book Keywords:
arrogance, debate, assumptions, discussion, diplomacy, bureaucracy, preconceptions, communication
