Lee Thomas Quotes

#1. Death was bleach and it burned away the stains, leaving nothing but white.

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#2. They pushed closer. Chest to chest. Belly to belly. Two edges of a wound needing to heal.

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#3. Cruelty is not taught. It is as certain as a compass point. One can be instructed in the specifics of cruelty, like one can be taught to use a spoon, a knife, a fork, but even without these skills a man will still eat. The need is with us.

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#4. Every human being was a victim of something, whether it was desire, addiction, ignorance, or faith.

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#5. In politics and in war, monsters are defined by which side of a fight a man claims. He is still a man to those who share his beliefs, perhaps even a hero. To those that oppose his philosophy, he is a beast, a creature, one of a thousand unspeakable demons clashing over an ideal.

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#6. Over the years I had convinced myself that brutality required motive, but this is a fool's deceit. Cruelty is the motive; religion and politics and resources are simply the cloth man weaves to curtain his desires for violence.

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