“Those who can adapt to the sudden paradigm shift and new environment do. Obey the rules. Search for the loopholes. Sneer at the guidelines despite being bound by them. In the end, everyone learns that rules are necessary to make the system run smoothly.”
― Carlo Zen, 幼女戦記 (1) Deus lo vult

“The moment a person loses the capacity to think, to question, Tanya considers them no longer human but a machine. And that is why the individual Tanya Degurechaff reveres thought, loves debate, and sneers at dogmatism from the bottom of her heart.”
― Carlo Zen, 幼女戦記 (1) Deus lo vult

“In an isolated space, humans would submit to power and authority, while those in dominant positions would wield it without restriction. Analysis of this phenomenon, known as "obedience to authority," yielded shocking results. Surprisingly, this deference had nothing to do with a person's rationality, sensibility, or personality but instead the product of remarkable deindividuation triggered by the assignment of roles.”
― Carlo Zen, 幼女戦記 (1) Deus lo vult

“She had a thick aura of battle around her, and her face was almost doll-like, it was so pleasant to look at. Vacant blue eyes, blond hair tinged dark gray.”
― Carlo Zen, 幼女戦記 (1) Deus lo vult

“I wish the enemy would hesitate to shoot when they see me, but you can't expect humanitarianism on the battlefield.”
― Carlo Zen, 幼女戦記 (1) Deus lo vult

“I want to weep for lack of such a noble concept -- a soldier's right to refuse.”
― Carlo Zen, 幼女戦記 (1) Deus lo vult

“If you're claiming to be the Supreme Being (even if you're not doing a very good job at it), I wish you were a bit more mentally mature.”
― Carlo Zen, 幼女戦記 (1) Deus lo vult

“Messing with people's lives is quite honestly a lot of fun, but it's completely unacceptable for me to be on the receiving end like this. Why can't I decide how to live my own life? Isn't my existence as an individual the least I should be able to control?”
― Carlo Zen, 幼女戦記 (1) Deus lo vult

“The worst thing was that even if you did your own job, if your teammate failed to do theirs, you could be blown away along with them. And yet, if you focused only on strengthening your own defenses, someone else could get killed. All we could do was trust our teammates, and those who failed were mercilessly culled. We'd been thrown into an extreme situation that was just like the front lines. In the end, we barely slept at all.”
― Carlo Zen, 幼女戦記 (1) Deus lo vult

“Obey the rules. Search for the loopholes. Sneer at the guidelines despite being bound by them.”
― Carlo Zen, The Saga of Tanya the Evil, Vol. 1: Deus lo Vult

“But ironically, now having seen those qualities made incarnate, Lergen realized that the highest form of the Imperial Army's desires was simply another way to describe a monster. And it filled him with fear.”
― Carlo Zen, 幼女戦記 (1) Deus lo vult

“The overwhelmed, unresponsive senses ravaged by agony left no option other than flailing in pain. Strangled by these things, it easily lost consciousness. Fully free of the emotions of a human who hadn't wept in ages, the body sobbed instinctively.”
― Carlo Zen, 幼女戦記 (1) Deus lo vult

“paralyze the cities. It was a completely different environment from the age when a single storm could devastate farms, wash people away, and leave entire families destitute. Hence, the gods took care not to intervene more than the humans wanted, and because of that, they were being forgotten. It was essential to encourage mankind’s self-reliance so they could develop higher-order cognition. Yet for the longest time, no one foresaw this would lead to a lack of faith.”
― Carlo Zen, The Saga of Tanya the Evil, Vol. 1: Deus lo Vult

“Having been thus “straightened out,” Corporals Kurst and Harald became rebellious, but they weren’t disciplined outright—key word outright. After the company commander and the second lieutenant mentioned that they simply couldn’t take care of them on the front lines, the pair was assigned to the rear.”
― Carlo Zen, The Saga of Tanya the Evil, Vol. 1: Deus lo Vult

“As Tanya gazes at the enemy unit through her binoculars, shells plow the earth right where they were meant to, turning people into fertilizer. In other words, this is the correct way of waging war—taking organic life and rendering it past tense through the use of ammunitions.”
― Carlo Zen, The Saga of Tanya the Evil, Vol. 1: Deus lo Vult

“Attn: Service Corps, Imperial Army General Staff Office We guide him always, abandon him never, go where there is no path, never yielding, forever on the battlefield. Everything we do, we do for victory. We seek mages for the worst battlefields, the smallest rewards, days darkened by a forest of swords and hails of bullets, and constant danger with no guarantee of survival. To those who return go the glory and the honor. General Staff Office 601st Formation Committee”
― Carlo Zen, The Saga of Tanya the Evil, Vol. 1: Deus lo Vult

“Incidentally, people say there is a fine line between the brilliant and the insane, but I feel like it’s actually fairly easy to tell them apart. If by the end of a conversation you’re filled with the urge to empty an entire magazine into someone, they’re nuts. If you can hold another amicable conversation with them, they’re brilliant.”
― Carlo Zen, The Saga of Tanya the Evil, Vol. 1: Deus lo Vult

“Children are taught that they are all equally unique and irreplaceable. But it isn't hard to find disparities that contradict these familiar maxims.”
― Carlo Zen, The Saga of Tanya the Evil, Vol. 1: Deus lo Vult