# Quote — James S. A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes

> “We regret the necessity of this action,” she said to everyone everywhere. “But in the cause of freedom, there can be no compromise.”
>
> That’s what it’s come to, Miller thought, rubbing a hand across his chin. Pogroms after all. Cut off just a hundred more heads, just a thousand more heads, just ten thousand more heads, and then we’ll be free.

- Author: [James S. A. Corey](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey.md)
- Book: [Leviathan Wakes](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/leviathan-wakes.md)
- Page: 364
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_S._A._Corey#Leviathan_Wakes_(2011)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/leviathan-wakes/we-regret-the

## More from this book

> If Fred couldn’t build himself a peace treaty, the OPA would never win against the discipline and unity of an inner planet navy. But they would also never lose. War without end.
>
> Well, what was history if not that?
>
> And how would having the stars change anything?

p. 467 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/leviathan-wakes/if-fred-couldnt.md)

> And now they were making music from the screams of the dying. Of the dead. The were dancing to it in the low-rent clubs. What it must be like, Miller thought, to be young and soulless.
>
> But no. That wasn’t fair. Diogo was a good kid. He was just naive. The universe would take care of that, given a little time.

p. 445 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/leviathan-wakes/and-now-they.md)

> That man could take a visitation from God with thirty underdressed angels announcing that sex was okay after all and make it seem vaguely depressing.

p. 560 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/leviathan-wakes/that-man-could.md)