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“But sir,” Jonas suggested, “since you have so much power—” The man corrected him. “Honor,” he said firmly. “I have great honor. So will you. But you will find that that is not the same as power.
“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
“Turned out that the end of the world had to actually arrive before people would take it seriously.”
― 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
“Power was an illusion of perception, as Jasnah had said. The first step to being in control was to see yourself as capable of being in control.”
― 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
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