The Shadow Sorceress Quotes

“Each man—or woman—does as he senses best,” Stepan said. “Few indeed set out to do what they see as evil. We—or others—may see it as such. That is our judgment, but they may see what we do as evil to their way of thinking.” He laughed. “What I say is simple. So simple any child could grasp it, and yet…generation after generation, lands and men fight because they cannot agree on what way of life is good.”
― L.E. Modesitt Jr., The Shadow Sorceress

“Those who are blind slaves to principled belief would claim virtue while murdering for their beliefs. Yet they claim that they are exalted above those who profess no such principles at all, even as the bodies pile up.”
― L.E. Modesitt Jr., The Shadow Sorceress