Of Empire and Illusion Quotes

“I have looked many men in the eye. Some I deemed villains, liars, and beasts. Others, more trustworthy than clergy. A binary discussion, assigning simply black or white, is a stunted reading of these individuals, the death of, "Why?" The color black is an unintelligible void and white, an incoherent scream, each lacking the constructive facts shrouded in the other. Only through shades of each is there an understanding of reality, any conception of an image. And so, I've sought them, these violent shades of gray.
From JR Hazard, introduction to Of Empire and Illusion”
― JR Hazard, Of Empire and Illusion: Or the Manuscript as it Sat August 27, 1987