Discipline in itself is not a corrupt concept, only discipline that is imposed rather than self-calculated. - Jack Vance

Motto of the Institute: A little knowledge is a dangerous thing; a great deal of knowledge is disaster, which detractors of the Institute scornfully paraphrase to: Somebody else’s ignorance is bliss.

“You have not accepted my advice.”
Fair shrugged. “You asked me to remain ignorant, to accept my stupidity and ineptitude.”

I know now what I should have known every moment of my life; that unless you help yourself, you die a slave. The fact is basic.