The Wisdom of Crowds (The Age of Madness #3)

by Joe Abercrombie

“Faith must be shaken from time to time, or it becomes rigid. An excuse for any outrage. I have come to believe that the righteous… should always have doubts.”

She was madness, and fire, and violence, and all the things he’d told himself he didn’t want. But here’s the sorry truth—if you really don’t want a thing, you don’t have to keep telling yourself so.

“In crowds it is stupidity and not mother wit that is accumulated.” Gustave Le Bon

“History is not the story of battles between right and wrong, but between one man’s right and another’s. Evil is not the opposite of good. It is what we call another man’s notion of good when it differs from ours.”

“Vanity, a loud voice and a loose relationship with the truth,” whispered Zuri. “All the qualities of a successful politician.”