I cannot argue with your good intentions,” said Gregor at one point. “The brain transplant business is a loathsome enterprise. But you do realise - your effort, your raid, is hardly going to put a dent in it. House Bharaputra will just clean up the broken glass and go on.”

“It will make a permanent difference to the forty-nine clones,” Mark asserted doggedly. “Everybody makes that same damned argument. ‘I can’t do it all, so I’m not going to do any.’ And they don’t. And it goes on, and on.

Lois McMaster Bujold, “Mirror Dance” (via argonauticae)