[T]here is iron in your words of life. No signed paper can hold the iron. It must come from men. The words of Ten Bears carry the same iron of life and death. It is good that warriors such as we meet in the struggle of life ... or death. It shall be life. So will it be.
-- Ten Bears in The Outlaw Josey Wales
And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.
-- Jeremiah 21:8