An Echo of Things to Come (The Licanius Trilogy, #2)

by James Islington

“We can’t start mistaking what we can do for what we have the right to do.”

They’d both lived long enough to see how people—societies, even—could succumb to mob morality. The desire for acceptance, the desire to feel like they were fighting for something … too many were willing to base their beliefs around such shallow things. It was rarely about what was actually right or wrong. Such influences were understandable, but they were unquestionably to be avoided.