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Morality is not a thing you can simply doff to put on the helm of battle, then put back on when you’re done with the slaughter.
Oathbringer (2017)
It was gratifying to see how much one could accomplish in both politics and trade by liberally murdering the other fellow’s soldiers.
Oathbringer (2017)
These are the men…well, these are the men who actually change the world. And they terrify me. For men never see as far as they think they do.
Oathbringer (2017)
You could not arrive at excellence by the average of these people. Excellence was an individual quest, not a group effort.
Oathbringer (2017)
Kaladin had never had much time for art. Either the picture depicted something useful—like a map—or it was basically pointless.
Oathbringer (2017)
“Child, when they were but babes, I had already lived dozens of lifetimes. ‘Old’ is a word you use for worn shoes. I’m something else entirely.”
Oathbringer (2017)
The most important step a man can take. It’s not the first one, is it?
It’s the next one.
Oathbringer (2017)
“That was rude.”
“Rudeness doesn’t imply untruth though.”
Oathbringer (2017)
She didn’t exactly understand what she was doing, but she rarely did. Art wasn’t about understanding, but about knowing.
Oathbringer (2017)
His sincerity was so unexpected. Dalinar had been around Alethi politicians so much that he found honesty an obscure thing, like a language he no longer spoke.
Oathbringer (2017)
Dalinar bowed his head for a prayer. Let me be stronger than those who would kill me. Simple and to the point, the kind he figured the Almighty would prefer.
Oathbringer (2017)
Order was the very substance of rule. If things were organized, control could be asserted.
Oathbringer (2017)
That was the coward’s route. Wishing for ignorance.
Oathbringer (2017)
Fine? All right? Now leave me alone. You’re stinking up the place with an air of contented idiocy.
Oathbringer (2017)
Oh, Adolin, Shallan thought. He’d arrived at a theory he liked, and now wouldn’t let it go. It was a common mistake warned of in her scientific books.
Oathbringer (2017)
Within moments he was roaring his pleasure. Nothing these men did could touch him. He was a destroyer, a conqueror, a glorious maelstrom of death. A god.
Oathbringer (2017)
I’d hoped…I’d hoped you could tell me, give me an absolute right. For once, I’d like my moral code not to come with a list of exceptions at the end.
Oathbringer (2017)
“They all stretched farther and farther until they collapsed. In all the history of mankind, has any conqueror decided they had enough? Has any man just said, ‘This is good. This is what I wanted,’ and gone home?”
Oathbringer (2017)
“You make it sound like having the power to change the world is a bad thing.”
“Bad? No. Abhorrent, depressing, ghastly. Having power is a terrible burden, the worst thing imaginable, except for every other alternative.”
Oathbringer (2017)
You are a man with complicated beliefs, who does not accept everything you are told. You decide how you are defined. Don’t surrender that to them. They will gleefully take the chance to define you, if you allow it.
Oathbringer (2017)