Ildefonse said ponderously: "If your analysis is correct, we must undertake to secure the future against this pangynic nightmare." - Jack Vance

"Very well," said Cugel. "I will ride with you to Taun Tassel, but you must accept these three terces in full, exact, final, comprehensive and complete compensation for the ride and every other aspect, adjunct, by-product and consequence, either direct or indirect, of the said ride, renouncing every other claim, now, and forever, including all times of the past and future, without exception, and absolving me, in part and in whole, from any and all further obligation." Iucounu held up small balled fists and gritted his teeth toward the sky. "I repudiate your entire paltry philosophy! I find zest in giving!"

Discipline in itself is not a corrupt concept, only discipline that is imposed rather than self-calculated.

“I perceive your ideological bias.”
“It is not bias to favor the tried and true ways of the past; it is ordinary common sense.”