# Quote — Sheri S. Tepper, The Visitor

> Call me either Colonel or Doctor. Hearing both titles gives me a split personality, the two philosophies differing so widely. It is medicine’s philosophy that lives should be saved, of all sorts. It is our military’s philosophy that as long as a few cells are kept alive, actual lives may be dispensed with. A few inches of gut in a bottle is not, to my mind, a life, no matter what theological contortions one puts oneself through.

- Author: [Sheri S. Tepper](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper.md)
- Book: [The Visitor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/the-visitor.md)
- Page: 256
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/the-visitor/call-me-either

## More from this book

> Long ago, the people of the world cried out for help. In the reaches of heaven their cry was heard, and a Visitor came in answer to it. The Visitor began helping immediately, but secretly. Now the visitor intends to be known to the people of the world and the people of the world must deal with that knowledge.

p. 41 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/the-visitor/long-ago-the.md)

> “I know so little,” she murmured.
>
> “Better admit you are up to your neck in ignorance than stand upon a pinnacle of misinformation,” he said firmly.

p. 258 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/the-visitor/i-know-so-little.md)

> Many men of importance were gathered there to be seen talking with other men of importance, resulting in an abundance of conspicuous but immaterial discourse.

p. 40 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/the-visitor/many-men-of-importance.md)