Jane Eisklar

Any community's arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do the necessary evil, and not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary, and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, Barrayar (1991 AD)

Damn the torpedoes. Damn it yeah, State War Academy they called it, it was a school for housekeepers, it was. Cleaning here and wiping there, and when everything was neat and clean you were told to buckle up and grab the stuff and put it into use so everything got dirty again. High-G maneouvers so everything got spilled with that gooey mixture of fullerene fluids and your last lunch.