I never could understand why some writers treat women as helpless. Every woman I know is strong in her own unique way.

Culture carries no privilege to exist. Cultures do not have value simply because they are. Some cultures, the world is better off without.

Nothing gained without cost is valued. Freedom has a cost, and all will bear it so all will value and preserve it.

Everybody knows it. Wizards are supposed to have beards. It's common knowledge.

Not everyone is willing to embrace liberty; liberty requires not just effort, but risk. Some people choose to delude themselves and see their chains as protective armor.

Reasons are the spoils of victory. When you've destroyed the enemy, then your leaders write down the reasons in books, and give moving speeches about them. If you've done your job, then there aren't any of the enemy left to dispute your leader's reasons. At least not until the next war.

But this was no ordinary chicken. This chicken was evil manifest.