“If the people must be ever fearful of death, then there will always be an executioner.”
“In such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.”
“You fear them because you fear death, and rightly: for death is terrible and must be feared,' the mage said...'And life is also a terrible thing,' Ged said, 'and must be feared and praised.”
“And in such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as Albert Camus suggested, not to be on the side of the executioners.”
“The desire of death will not always lead you to death but the fear of death will.”
“A ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.”