There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves. – Jose Rizal
“Evil is evil, Stregobor,” said the witcher seriously as he got up. “Lesser, greater, middling, it’s all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I’m not a pious hermit. I haven’t done only good in my life. But if I’m to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”
― The Last Wish
― The Last Wish
“It is better to go forward without an aim than loiter without an aim, and with surety much better than to retreat without an aim.”
― Wieża Jaskółki
― Wieża Jaskółki
“Nonsense,” said the witcher. “And what’s more, it doesn’t rhyme. All decent predictions rhyme.”
― The Last Wish
― The Last Wish
“Doubts. Only evil, sir, never has any. But no one can escape his destiny.”
― Sword of Destiny
― Sword of Destiny
“Intolerance and superstition has always been the domain of the more stupid amongst the common folk and, I conjecture, will never be uprooted, for they are as eternal as stupidity itself. There, where mountains tower today, one day there will be seas; there where today seas surge, will one day be deserts. But stupidity will remain stupidity.”
― Blood of Elves
― Blood of Elves
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