Well-intentioned men don’t run for office any more! They have too much sense to expose themselves to assassination, and only delusible idiots like ou… - John Brunner

only delusible idiots like our current chief executive can be persuaded to don the robes of high office. Nice guys don’t crave power.)

And by the way, it’s knowledge that moves mountains, you know, not faith.

Best if the driver didn't have to get hurt. Though having been fool enough to volunteer for army service, of course, and worse still, having been fool enough to accept orders unquestioningly from a machine...
But everybody did that. Everybody, all the time. Otherwise none of this would have been possible.
Similarly, none of it would have had to happen.

They’d have me out and shoot me the first day they took charge. Anyone like me is intolerably subversive to an authoritarian régime, because I’m not interested in imposing my ideas by force on other people.