There was, in his mind, no truer measure of stupidity than to imagine that the world could be reduced to two sides, one facing the other with fangs bared, brandishing weapons and hurling hate at the enemy. Things were never so simple.
This feels like a distillation of the theme behind the entire Malayan series — every character and every cause represents a shade of grey in a continuum without clear end points. Everyone's goals are justified from their own perspective, and everyone's means are suspect from some other valid point of view.
