Quote:Niccolo Machiavelli said that if men do not have legal means to redress their injuries, they will resort to illegal ones.
That was the thrust of The Assassination Bureau, Ltd. (Not the movie; the book.) Dragomiloff, the founder, was eventually persuaded that in providing an illegal channel for redress against evils the influential and powerful committed, the Bureau had acted as a safety valve that kept people from militating for a change in society, and thus he had harmed humanity by staving off that needed change. But he warned that,
Quote:...we were never wrong for the wrong reasons — even in our wrongness there was a rightness....-----
The world must come to recognize the joint responsibility for justice; it can no longer remain the aim of a select — and self-selected — few.... It must come from the growing moral fibre of the world itself.
Yet, one doubt; one question. If that moral fibre be not forthcoming? Then, in some distant age, the Assassination Bureau may well be re-born.
“We’ve had our differences, but he’s seen the light … and I made sure he moved toward it, instead of coming back.”