“A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone.”

“Then, as Father had trained him, Rigg thought past his feelings.”

“(Rigg) had often complained that all these languages were useless, and Father had only said, "A man who speaks but one language understands none.”

“Government is all show when it isn't murder in the dark ... or soldiers in the open.”

“She likes us, said Umbo. I know, I could feel it too, said Rigg. Shes really glad to have us here. I think she loves us like her own children. Whom she murdered and cut up into the stew. They were ...”

“Maybe that's all demons ever are. People like us, doing things without even knowing what we're doing.”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”

“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”

“If you can't experience the humanity of people who don't look like you, you're not civilized enough to be an officer of the peace.”

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.”

“My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat, situation excellent. I attack.”