Inconsiderate creatures, gods were. - Fritz Leiber

What have I always told you about Soldiers? The bigger the gripe, the smaller the cause! It is infallible!

We have searched the wide world over and not found forgetfulness.

Goniface was thinking how like his own was the destiny of the whole Hierarchy and of every priest in it. Whether they murdered their families—and their own youth—actually or only in spirit, it amounted to the same thing. They betrayed and deserted them, left them for dead, to enjoy the power and pleasures of a sterile tyrant class.