“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door,” he used to say. “You step into the Road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.
“You want to change the world, Shallan. That’s well and good. But be careful. The world predates you. She has seniority.”
― Oathbringer
― Oathbringer
“But merely being tradition does not make something worthy, Kadash. We can't just assume that because something is old it is right.”
― Oathbringer
― Oathbringer
“Turned out that the end of the world had to actually arrive before people would take it seriously.”
― Oathbringer
― Oathbringer
“But it’s not a matter of morality, is it? It’s a matter of thresholds. How many guilty may be punished before you’d accept one innocent casualty? A thousand? Ten thousand? A hundred? When you consider, all calculations are meaningless except one. Has more good been done than evil? If so, then the law has done its job. And so … I must hang all four men.” He paused. “And I would weep, every night, for having done it.”
― Oathbringer
― Oathbringer
“In all the history of mankind, has any conqueror decided they had enough? Has any man just said, ‘This is good. This is what I wanted,’ and gone home?”
― Oathbringer
― Oathbringer
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