Iain Banks - Consider Phlebas (1987)

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Something in your voice tells me we approach the question of remuneration.

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Don't you have a religion? Dorolow asked Horza.
Yes, he replied, not taking his eyes away from the screen on the wall above the end of the main mess-room table. My survival.

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That was how divorced from the human scale modern warfare had become. You could smash and destroy from unthinkable distances, obliterate planets from beyond their own system and provoke stars into novae from light-years off... and still have no good idea why you were really fighting.

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Empathize with stupidity and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot.

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Pity they didn't devote a little more ingenuity to staying alive rather than conducting mass slaughter as efficiently as possible.

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The underlying point held; experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place.

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