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“I tried hard not to think about the horrors of a world where your wife can reach out and call you as easily as if she were constantly standing next to you”
― Terry Mancour, Magelord

“it would be moral to force someone to do something which they would volunteer for if they were a moral person in possession of all of the facts.”
― Tim Underwood, Civilization: Barbarians: A 4X lit novel

“Killing one is a sin, killing hundreds makes one a hero, killing tens of thousands makes one a king, and killing millions makes one an emperor.”
― Yanbi Xiaosheng, Emperor's Domination

“You’re trying to bait a man ambushed in the forest with humanitarianism, calling on his nobler feelings. You’re asking him, as I understand, to deign not to spill the blood of the brigands who attacked him. He’s to take pity on the thugs because the thugs are poor, have got wives, children and, who knows, maybe even mothers.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish