“Let me tell you about weakness! Killing the strong to prove your strength is foolish weakness. Killing fools is easy weakness. Killing the weak is evil weakness. Accomplishing your ends without killing, mastering your mind when you want to kill--that is strength!”
“It's dangerous to let your enemy see weakness. Weakness can git you killed.”
“But you can't kill humans It's--Evil? The world is evil Risika. Wolves hunt the stragglers in a group of deer. Vultures devour the fallen.Hyenas destroy the weak. Humans kill that which they fear. Survive and be strong, or die, cornered by your prey, trembling because the night is dark.”
“Strong people are harder to kill than weak people and more useful in general.”
“If you let people believe that you are weak, sooner or later you’re going to have to kill them.”
“I like men with weaknesses, his father had said. I can buy them. Men without weaknesses I have to kill.”