Deadhouse Gates (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #2)

by Steven Erikson

Wise words are like arrows flung at your forehead. What do you do? Why, you duck, of course.

“Pogroms need no reason, sir, none that can weather challenge, in any case. Difference in kind is the first recognition, the only one needed, in fact. Land, domination, pre-emptive attacks—all just excuses, mundane justifications that do nothing but disguise the simple distinction. They are not us. We are not them.”