If there is anything worse than evil, it is nothingness. At least evil has a form, and a voice, and a purpose, however depraved. Perhaps some good can even come out of evil: a terrible deed of violence against someone weaker may lead others to act in order to ensure that such a deed is not perpetrated again, whereas before they might have been unaware of the reasons why an individual might behave in such a way, or they might simply have chosen to ignore them. And evil, as we saw with the Blacksmith, always contains within itself the possibility of its own redemption. It is not evil that is the enemy of hope: it is nothingness.
There comes a point when you have to realize that the sum of all your blood, sweat, and tears will ultimately amount to zero.
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
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There comes a point when you have to realize that the sum of all your blood, sweat, and tears will ultimately amount to zero.
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