"I guess heroes feel like they've accomplished something." "And you haven't? Several thousand slaves might… — Matthew Stover

You can kill me, but you can't make me obey.

The feeling he'd had, that he was about to get himself killed, swelled into an overwhelming premonition of doom. Ganner's knees went weak, and a very large part of him wanted to bolt down the corridor and get away-but though he hadn't been much of a hero, the one virtue he'd never had to fake was courage.

This is the most valuable lesson one can teach a fanatic: that fanaticism is self-defeating.