Now THAT is a Good Book Quote

"Idealists are frustrating. Infuriating as they are inflexible. They hold impossibly naïve positions, and equivocate, and split hairs, and get lost in pointless hypotheticals—often as the world burns down around them. And much as they’d like to believe otherwise, they’re anything but perfect. If anything, they’re more susceptible to despair and discouragement than the rest of us. It’s that detachment from reality that makes people like me necessary in a crisis. The pragmatists, the mathematical monsters, the coldhearted bastards who believe good ends justify almost any means. The necessary evils. But if you take that as a license to smother the people who resist, who dare to hope, who wholeheartedly uphold the conviction that we don’t have to become monsters to destroy monsters, and genuinely, perhaps even stupidly, believe that things can be better? When the crisis is over and the smoke fades, evil is all you’re left with."

  -- Matt, Double Blind Book 2