Alison

“Will you fight the tyrant with weapons she made, for her own use?'

'We are weapons she made for her own use?'

'We are. But will you pick up every one of those weapons, and use them against her? What will you accomplish? You will be just like her, and if you succeed you'll have done no mare than change the name of the tyrant. Nothing will be different.'

She looked at me, confused and, I thought, distressed. 'And what if you don't pick them up?' she asked, finally. 'And you fail? Nothing will be different then, either.”
― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Mercy