“So that’s that,” Miriam said. “We have a plan.” “You have a shared delusion,” I said. - Stephen Baxter

But that's insane," Morrow protested.
Uvarov hissed, "No one ever said it wasn't. We're human beings. What do you expect?

The law is a weapon of government, not a protection for the likes of you. Surely you understand that.

If you were anywhere near the center of human affairs, even to the extent that she was, your predominant emotion had to be disappointment at the way in which an age when opportunities for humanity had never been greater, old flaws—territorialism, combativeness, reluctance to transcend cultural barriers, a sheer inability simply to see things from the other guy’s point of view—looked set to bring the sky crashing down on all their heads.