Weiner-Kutkh waved airily. “I seem to have been born lucky.” “Said every cheater who’s ever lived,” Caine retorted. - Charles E. Gannon

And here are the wages you must pay in order to climb the political ladder, you foolish sod. You’ve got to do the dirty work that others have ordered. I’ve done it out of dubious patriotism. Let’s see if you’ll do it out of blind ambition.

And in the time it had taken to reflect upon the significance of the moment, the moment was past. That was, after all, the nature of moments.

Virodok!" exclaimed Sukhinin, who sounded short of breath. "Do you monsters hold nothing dear beyond yourselves?"
"No, we do not, and that is the source of our power: to reject the delusion that any human, anywhere, at any time, actually does anything or feels anything that they believe is not, at some level, in their own interest.