'you see,' he said, still looking down at his bandages, 'when one's young, it seem very easy to distinguish between right and wrong, but as one gets older it becomes more difficult. At school it's easy to pick out one's own villains and heroes and as one grow up wanting to be a hero and kill the villains. - well in the last few years I've killed two villains.
That's all find. The hero kills two villains, but when the hero Le Chiffre starts to kill the villain Bond, and the villain Bond knows he isn't a villain at all, you see the other side of the medal. The villains and the heroes get all mixed up.
'Of course,' he added..., 'patriotism comes along and makes it seem fairly all right, but this country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out of date. Today we are fighting Communism. Okay. If I'd been alive fifty years ago, the brand of Conservatism we have today would have been damn near called communism and we would have been told to go fight that. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
p 133-135, Casino Royale, the nature of evil.
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