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“My greatest wish for humanity is not for peace or comfort or joy. It is that we all still die a little inside every time we witness the death of another. For only the pain of empathy will keep us human. There’s no version of God that can help us if we ever lose that.”
― Neal Shusterman, Scythe

“War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.”
― Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

“Without the threat of suffering, we can’t experience true joy.”
― Neal Shusterman, Scythe

“When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it.”
― Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War