What’s real is what’s valuable. Everything else is just an illusion. - Karl Schroeder

Humans become violent when they feel their interest are threatened.
Galas scowled. "They were never threatened! Parliament is a rumor mill staffed by trough-fed clods who abuse the tongue of their birth every time they open their mouths. They all gabble at once and confuse one another mightily, and when this confusion is committed to paper they refer to it as 'policy.'"

It's time to abandon the plans of the entity that enslaved me all these centuries, he said. And time to start making my own.

The being was trying to get him to think about what he was saying, not just recite.