[he shakes his head a little, making the wrong side of his face visible for a moment--a blur of sunken cheekbone and staring black eye]

You can do them all the harm there is, by not listening or believing or helping. For the purposes of renewing Asgard itself, any feeling will do. But as to the matter of this war...

[he shrugs]

If they were so powerful as to be able to triumph alone, we would not be here. They would offer neither proof nor choices.