“Love children especially, for like the angels they too are sinless, and they live to soften and purify our hearts, and, as it were, to guide us. Woe to him who offends a child.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (via philosophybits)
I revisited Robin Hood with some friends recently and it reminded me how of one of my favorite villain archetypes: an incompetent petty idiot who’s only a problem because he has way too much power at his disposal.
