“Those are brave men... lets go kill them”
“Those are brave men," he told Ser Balon in admiration. "Let's go kill them.”
“And all men kill the thing they love, By all let this be heard,Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word,The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword!”Ballad of Reading Gaol, 1898”
“If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
“Hope that justice will be done to those brave men who stood up for their convictions.”
“Let us discuss why poetry has lost the power of making men brave.”