"Yes," Vorkosigan agreed, "I could take over the universe with this army if I could ever get all their weapons pointed in the same direction." - Lois McMaster Bujold

“Hair shirts, really, what is the point?” She gave the impression of a faint, dramatic shudder, and Pen smiled despite himself. She added more tartly, “And it indicates a deep confusion of thinking to mistake one’s own discomfort for a benefit to another.”

To this day she didn’t know if he taken her disgusted refusal to defend herself for a covert admission of guilt.

“So use your initiative!”
“I don’t have initiative. I follow orders, thank you. It’s much safer.”
“Fine, I order you to use your initiative.”