Cowards rule the world these days. With coward rules and coward customs. To succeed today, all you gotta know is how to blame and how to complain. [to Rip]
Cities are the sunsets of civilization, monuments to an exhausted landscape.
You’ll never meet a man who’s killed more men than me. But I ain’t never murdered one.[to Rip]
You learn. You fail. Learn more. Fail more. And don’t let anyone outwork you. Ever.[to Carter]
Yesterday is what eats everybody. That’s why I don’t think about it.[Beth Dutton: Yesterday is what eats me.]
Until they find a cure for human nature, a man must stand with his people.[to Kayce]
This house makes me want to put a baby in every room. Kids running everywhere. It needs chaos to make it a home.[to Kayce]
These guys, they just work here. You’ll see a thousand of them come and go. But not us. We die here. This is your family. We’re your family.[to Jimmy]
There’s no such thing as morality. There’s own the land and there’s lose the land. That’s all you’ll be judged by. Not how you do it. Winners are never judged by “how”. They save that for the losers.[to Thomas Rainwater]
That’s the thing about being a grandfather. I get to do all the things I wished I’d done with my children. The things I regret, I get to do different.[Monica Dutton: You don’t act like the man from the stories I’ve heard.]
Right and wrong is so far from this place, I don’t think it factors in at all.
Resistance is the kind of thing that defines itself.