“We’re neither good nor evil. We’re simply interested in things as they are.”
Source: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book II: The Black Cauldron (1965), Chapter 14
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Source: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book V : The High King (1968), Chapter 21
Context: “Dyrnwyn is yours,” Gwydion said, “as it was meant to be.”
“Yet Arawn is slain,” Taran replied. “Evil is conquered and the blade’s work done.”
“Evil conquered?” said Gwydion. “You have learned much, but learn this last and hardest of lessons. You have conquered only the enchantments of evil. That was the easiest of your tasks, only a beginning, not an ending. Do you believe evil itself so quickly overcome? Not so long as men still hate and slay each other, when greed and anger goad them. Against these even a flaming sword cannot prevail, but only that portion of good in all men’s hearts whose flame can never be quenched.
“Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?”
Source: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book V : The High King (1968), Chapter 11 (p. 142)
Source: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book II: The Black Cauldron (1965), Chapter 20
“Evil cannot be conquered by wishing.”
Source: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book V : The High King (1968), Chapter 21
Source: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book I: The Book of Three (1964), Chapter 19
The runic inscription upon the scabbard of Dyrnwyn, correctly read by the bard Taliesin, in Chapter 19
The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book V : The High King (1968)