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“Moral law is an invention of mankind for the disenfranchisement of the powerful in favor of the weak. Historical law subverts it at every turn. A moral view can never be proven right or wrong by any ultimate test. A man falling dead in a duel is not thought thereby to be proven in error as to his views. His very involvement in such a trial gives evidence of a new and broader view.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West

“What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but sharing of enemies.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

“When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

“They were serious meat eaters”
― Daniel James Brown, The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party