“All of which pointed to a moral that they should have learned long before, Arthur thought: Never trust a bunch of lousy politicians to do your thinking for you.”

— Brian W. Aldiss , book Greybeard

Source: Greybeard (1964), Chapter 6 (p. 171)

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