"I wonder if that’s where pride fits in with our Lord's other domains, that it’s what lets His slaves own their own mistakes and be punished for them… I have not in truth understood the point of pride to Him, and if I can make any progress on that myself from overhearing you, it will be a favorable sign of your theological correctness."
"Meanwhile and as regards tyranny, there is the question of what policy will produce better results among future subordinates. I do not think the Security monitoring Peranza was taking his work fucking seriously. Left to my own devices, I'd make a serious example of this one, and expect that this would in fact get higher performance from the others. He was a fourth-circle wizard with a natural Intelligence of 16 and somebody like that can in fact produce better results than this if they are properly terrified of failing."
"It would not, in fact, surprise me if the low number of people being tortured on this Project, contributed to a sense in him that this Project was not a vital matter to his own, personal skin."