# Quote — Tad Williams, To Green Angel Tower

> Empires were like seawalls, he thought sadly, even those which embodied the best of hopes. The tide of chaos beat at them, and as soon as no one was shoring up the stones any more...

- Author: [Tad Williams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams.md)
- Book: [To Green Angel Tower](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams/to-green-angel-tower.md)
- Page: 150
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tad_Williams#Part_2) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams/to-green-angel-tower/empires-were-like

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> Sometimes doing the gods’ bidding required a hardened heart.

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> To fight a war, you must believe it can accomplish something. We fight this one to save John’s kingdom, or perhaps even to save all of mankind...but isn’t that what we always think? That all wars are useless—except the one we’re fighting now?

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> It was easy to hate if he did not think, Simon discovered.

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