Private profit is often hidden under a careful coating of great patriotism. - Isaac Asimov

But it seemed so likely to him that on every world the earliest histories were medleys of self-serving heroisms and minidramas that were meant as morality plays and were not to be taken literally. It was surely true of Helicon, yet you would find scarcely a Heliconian who would not swear by all the tales told and insist it was all true history.

I have been trying, friend Julius, to understand some remarks Elijah made to me earlier. Perhaps I am beginning to, for it suddenly seems to me that the destruction of what should not be, that is, the destruction of what you people call evil, is less just and desirable than the conversion of this evil into what you call good.
He hesitated, then, almost as though he were surprised at his own words, he said, “Go, and sin no more!”

Escribo por la misma razón que respiro: porque si no lo hiciera, moriría".