Patrick

“Mortals were such fickle creatures. They called into the dark, demanded answers and attention from forces they could not comprehend, and yet when they had that attention and those answers, they complained about them.”
― Philippa Ballantine, Spectyr

“Men’s greatest weakness is their facade of strength, and women’s greatest strength is their facade of weakness.”
― Warren Farrell, The Myth of Male Power

“Words were another sword for the man who wielded them well.”
― Brent Weeks, The Way of Shadows

“The myth of pure evil depicts innocent victims fighting against gratuitously wicked, sadistic enemies. The myth encourages people to believe that they are good and will remain good no matter what, even if they perpetrate severe harm on their opponents. Thus, the myth of pure evil confers a kind of moral immunity on people who believe in it. As we will soon see, belief in the myth is itself one recipe for evil, because it allows people to justify violent and oppressive actions. It allows evil to masquerade as good.”
― Roy F. Baumeister, Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty