“The CorpSeCorps always substituted rumour for action, if action would cost them anything. They believed in the bottom line.”

“Sympathy is no substitute for action.”

“Men follow their sentiments and their self-interest, but it pleases them to imagine that they follow reason. And so they look for, and always find, some theory which, a posteriori, makes their actions appear to be logical. If that theory could be demolished scientifically, the only result would be that another theory would be substituted for the first one, and for the same purpose.”

“Exasperation with the threefold frustration of action -- the unpredictability of its outcome, the irreversibility of the process, and the anonymity of its authors -- is almost as old as recorded history. It has always been a great temptation, for men of action no less than for men of thought, to find a substitute for action in the hope that the realm of human affairs may escape the haphazardness and moral irresponsibility inherent in a plurality of agents.”

“There's always someone willing to believe malicious rumours.”

“There are costs and risks to a program of action, but they are far less than the long range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”