# Quote — Steven Erikson, The Bonehunters

> Discipline is as much facing the enemy within as the enemy before you; for without critical judgement, the weapon you wield delivers — and let us not be coy here — naught but murder. And its first victim is the moral probity of your cause.

- Author: [Steven Erikson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-erikson.md)
- Book: [The Bonehunters](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-erikson/the-bonehunters.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-erikson/the-bonehunters/discipline-is-as-much

## More from this book

> A civilization at war chooses only the most obvious enemy, and often also the one perceived, at first, to be the most easily defeatable. But that enemy is not the true enemy, nor is it the gravest threat to that civilisation. Thus a civilization at war often chooses the wrong enemy.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-erikson/the-bonehunters/a-civilization-at-war.md)

> Mappo Trell, I believe motivations prove, ultimately, irrelevant. Upon either side of the battlefield the face grins with blunt stupidity, even as smoke fills the sky from horizon to horizon, even as crops whither and die, even as sweet land turns to salt. Inequity ends, Trell, when no-one and no thing is left standing.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-erikson/the-bonehunters/mappo-trell-i-believe.md)

> Compassion existed when and only when one could step outside oneself, to suddenly see the bars from inside the cage.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-erikson/the-bonehunters/compassion-existed-when.md)