“The belligerent gnome cloaks his ignorance in meaningless koans and nonsensical riddles. He is a shallow fraud, his ersatz wisdom a cruel affront to the traditions and entities he claims to revere. How I despise him.“
“Witness the grim elation in the boy’s eyes as he makes manifest his dreams of glorious genocide. He hears the voice and surrenders his will to its dire commands. He is an agent of oblivion, and this is his moment of birth and death. He has no soul to damn.”
“These robotic beings have been condemned to an existence of human emotion and human frailty, with no outlet for human pleasure. They have been brought into the hell of existence with no hope of heaven. They differ from us in no meaningful way.”
“OK, sure, this guy seems like a perfectly normal and reasonable person. Perhaps I shall give him a powerful position within the Royal Family. What’s the worst that could happen?” —Czar Nicholas II
