“I can tell you that only a fool destroys useful things merely because he doesn’t like them.”
Source: Masters of the Maze (1965), Chapter 8 (p. 108)
“They will try to make us believe that the only way to destroy them is to become like them.”
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David Gemmell
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book
The Swords of Night and Day
Source: Drenai series, The Swords of Night and Day, Ch. 21
Context: Winning is not everything, Stavut. Men like to think it is. Sometimes it is more important to stand against evil than to worry about beating it... Evil will always have the worst weapons. Evil will gather the greatest armies. They will burn, and plunder, and kill. But that's not the worst of it. They will try to make us believe that the only way to destroy them is to become like them. That is the true vileness of evil. It is contagious.
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