Simple minds respond to simple answers. - Glen Cook

Sadly, after years of study, I realize that most history may pivot on personal considerations like that, not on the pursuit of ideals dark or shining.

Evil is relative, Annalist. You can’t hang a sign on it. You can’t touch it or taste it or cut it with a sword. Evil depends on where you are standing, pointing your indicting finger.

Desperate people will do what they must to survive. Only a fool would expect the results to be pretty.