Wars, conflict, it's all business. "One murder makes a villain. Millions a hero". Numbers sanctify.

Political history is far too criminal and pathological to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villains from fiction.

He who outrages benevolence is called a ruffian: he who outrages righteousness is called a villain. I have heard of the cutting off of the villain Chow, but I have not heard of the putting of a ruler to death.

Cas Anvar — Ra's al Ghul