She tried, sometimes, to remember how it had been to be young. Or even, not quite so old. - Stephen Baxter

No," Morrow said. "I can't accept that. I don't always agree with the Planners. But they aren't killers."
"You think not?" Uvarov laughed again. "The survivalists—your 'Planners'—are psychotic. Of course. As I am. And you. We are a fundamentally flawed species. Most of humanity, for most of its history, has been driven by a series of mass psychotic delusions. The labels changed, but the nature of the delusions barely varied...

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

The future, it seemed, was turning out to be one damn thing after another.