“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 ...”

“He committed the crime of stupidity while under my command," said Citizen."Oh my," said Rigg. "They're handing out the death penalty for that these days?”

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

“You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.”

“They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king.”

“They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.”

“The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”