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“I spent two years damning myself because I thought you were above a desire of this kind. You're not. You're as vile an animal as I am. I should loathe my discovering it. I don't. Yesterday, I would have killed anyone who'd tell me that you were capable of doing what I've had you do. Today, I would give my life to not let it be otherwise, not to have you be anything but the bitch you are. All the greatness that I saw in you -- I would not take it in exchange for the obscenity of your talent at an animal's sensation of pleasure.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” “ ‘Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man’s mind,”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“But there is no such reason to mourn the destruction of a colony of cells: such a colony dies each time a loaf of bread goes into the oven. If a man is no more than such a colony, a man is nothing; but we instinctively know that man is more. What happens then to the part that is more?”
― Gene Wolfe, The Shadow of the Torturer

“It cannot be called virtue to kill one’s fellow citizens, to betray one’s friends, to be without loyalty, without mercy, without religion; by such methods one can acquire power, but not glory.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince