To be good or bad doesn't count: life out in this world doesn't depend on that. It depends on a relation of forces based on violence. And survival is violence. You'll wear leather shoes because someone has killed a cow and skinned it to make leather.
Oriana FallaciGlory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.
Oriana Fallaci