The authority of superior knowledge was different in kind from the authority of assumed power. Still, he felt a little awkward assuming it. - Michael Swanwick

Margarete saw, and disapproved, and understood. It was perfectly natural that Youth, being given a new and revolutionary truth, should embrace it too eagerly, should defend it too loudly, should proclaim it in the extremest terms and without regard for the sensibilities of others. Natural, too, that Age, vested as it was in things as they had always been, should reject the truth as unsettling and dangerous. In the ace of such strong emotions, the only sane thing to do therefore was to embrace the truth circumspectly, to hide one’s new allegiance from one’s elders.

I want your help to destroy the universe.

These hands were almost crippled digging coal so that rich men in Boston might grow even richer.