waystar-roycos reblogged
“I can’t help but say… he has wrought the most terrible things. He was a man who has, here and there, drawn in the edges of the world. Now and then, darkened the skies a little, closed men’s hearts. Fed that dark flame in men, the hard, mean, hard, relenting flame that keeps their hearths warm while another grows cold, their grain stashed while another goes hungry. And even has the temerity to tell that hard… funny, yes, funny, but hard joke about the man in the cold. You can get a little high, a little mighty, when you’re warm. Oh, yes, he— he gave away a few million of his billions, but he was not a generous man. He was mean, and he made but a mean estimation of the world. And he fed a certain kind of meagerness in men.” SUCCESSION 4.09 “Church and State”
