“To come to know your enemy, first you must become his friend. And once you become his friend, all his defenses come down. Then you can choose the most fitting method of his demise.” ~~ Eric Van Lustbader (Book: The Miko)
“Often, times dictate that one becomes more intimate with one’s enemies than with friends. This is necessary lesson of life; I urge you to listen well. Friends engender obligation and obligations entangle life. Always remember: complications breeds’ desperation.” ~~ Eric Van Lustbader (Book: The Miko)
“Those most afraid of losing their power are always the most sensitive about supposed threats to its security.” ~~ Eric Van Lustbader (Book: The Miko)
“Every plan had to have a backup, and each backup had to have its own backup. That was the only way to be successful, because no situation involving people was ever static.” ~~ Eric Van Lustbader (Book: The Miko)
“The concept of civilization is like that of Communism. Pure in the mind, it nevertheless cannot exist in reality. It is too absolute a concept for man.” ~~ Eric Van Lustbader (Book: The Miko)
“When we set the concept of civilization aside, we free ourselves.” ~~ Eric Van Lustbader (Book: The Miko)
“The lesson you must learn – and it is the most difficult one – is that your conscious mind often makes the wrong choice.” ~~ Eric Van Lustbader (Book: The Miko)
“No file on human being is ever complete, no how matter how up to date it is.” ~~ Eric Van Lustbader (Book: The Miko)
“Never rejoice over the death of another human being. Rather take satisfaction that a source of evil has been expunged.” ~~ Eric Van Lustbader (Book: The Miko)
“A gun against nothing, not a particularly fair fight. But then nothing much was fair in life anyway.” ~~ Eric Van Lustbader (Book: The Miko)
“The words “I’m sorry” were perhaps the most inadequate in the English language. But there was nothing much better in Japanese or in any of the world’s tongue for that matter.” ~~ Eric Van Lustbader (Book: The Miko)
“Accomplishments were strictly the province of the present. Those who sat back to gloat over their achievements often died with those thoughts.” ~~ Eric Van Lustbader (Book: The Miko)
Hope you enjoyed reading this collection of quotes.
