God what a banger of a quote. New Vegas' writing was pretty great in a lot of places.
Fucking love how that quote became entirely separated from it's origins to the point of being one of those things that get quoted with pictures of sunsets behind them
Joshua Graham is a walking quote engine. I've also seen the ones about light in the darkness and following the path floating around.
What's great about his character is he's clearly a violent maniac who had some kind of ego-death after getting tossed in the Grand Canyon and despite hating Caesar, he's doing the same thing Caesar did. He's uniting these tribal people together against common enemies through militancy and a united cultural framework. Caesar did it through Roman cosplaying and Graham's doing it through scifi Mormonism.
Yeah. In the end, while he isn’t as big a piece of shit, he’s still a piece of shit, and he doesn’t care for anything but revenge
But he does say many cool things in deep voice so
The line was actually about compassion but fascist with single digit brain cells of course didn't get it.
JE Sawyer once said he climbed a water tower in his own town and someone had scrawled it with no idea who wrote it.