# Quote — Tad Williams, To Green Angel Tower

> Only the mercenaries were here by choice. To Simon, the minds of men who would come to this of their own will were suddenly as incomprehensible as the thoughts of spiders or lizards—less so, even, for the small creatures of the earth almost always fled from danger. These were madmen, Simon realized, and that was the direst problem of the world: that madmen should be strong and unafraid, so that they could force their will on the weak and peace-loving. If God allowed such madness to be, Simon could not help thinking, then He was an old God who had lost His grip.

- 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: 392
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tad_Williams#Part_1) ([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/only-the-mercenaries

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

p. 145 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams/to-green-angel-tower/sometimes-doing-the.md)

> 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?

p. 314 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams/to-green-angel-tower/to-fight-a-war.md)

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

p. 469 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams/to-green-angel-tower/it-was-easy.md)