“Evil grants no mercy, and to attempt to appease it is nothing more than a piecemeal surrender to it. Surrender to evil is slavery at best, death at worse. -Richard Rahl”
― Naked Empire
― Naked Empire
“Dalton had expected it, he never failed to find it remarkable the way he had but to say a thing enough times, through enough people, and it became the popular truth, its provenance lost as it was mimicked by ordinary people who came to believe that it was their own idea—as if original thought routinely came forth from their witless minds of clay.”
― Soul Of The Fire
― Soul Of The Fire
“Wishing gets people killed,” he often said. “Using your head gets you home.”
― Faith Of The Fallen
― Faith Of The Fallen
“She had never asked why it was right for her to be a slave to another’s desires, but not evil for them to enslave her. She was not contributing to the betterment of mankind, but was merely a servant to countless puling little tyrants. Evil was not one large entity, but a ceaseless torrent of small wrongs left unchallenged, until they festered into monsters.”
― Faith Of The Fallen
― Faith Of The Fallen
“If an idea was sound, it had to have a life beyond a leader, or the leader had failed.”
― Faith Of The Fallen
― Faith Of The Fallen
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