 The Doctor has observed that his people "enjoy making speeches"<ref name="The Invasion of Time"></ref> and have an "infinite capacity for pretension".<ref name="Remembrance of the Daleks"></ref> The Time Lord penchant for ceremony extends to their technology, with various artefacts given weighty names like the Hand of Omega, the Eye of Harmony and the Key of Rassilon.The Sixth Doctor has also characterised the Time Lords as a stagnant and corrupt society, a state caused by ten million years of absolute power.<ref></ref> Sutekh the Osiran decries them as "a perfidious species,"<ref name="pyramids 4"></ref> while Brother Lassar, in the episode "School Reunion",<ref name="reunion"></ref> describes the Time Lords as "a pompous race" of "ancient, dusty senators... frightened of change and chaos" and "peaceful to the point of indolence".Their portrayal in the series is reminiscent of academics living in ivory towers, unconcerned with external affairs.