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

by James Islington

“The lesser of two evils, and the greater good. The most dangerous phrases in the world.”

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

The true evil is always in the reason and the excuse, not the act.

The danger of evil, the purpose of evil, is that it causes those who would oppose it to become evil also.” He looked Caeden in the eye. “And that, my friend, is what happened to you.”

He’d known the answer, hadn’t really expected to be told anything new. He’d just needed to hear it again. To be reassured that he was not alone in the pain of his doubt.

“The lesser of two evils, or the greater good. Get a good man to utter either of those phrases, and there is no one more eager to begin perpetrating evil.”