“You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.”
Eric Hoffer (1898–1983) American philosopher
Section 222
The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955)
“The cages are ready in case any of the enemies are captured.”
“You mean us?”
“Yes. Enemies.” Muller’s eyes glittered with sudden paranoid fury; it was alarming how easily he slipped from rational discourse to that cold blaze. “Homo sapiens. The most dangerous, the most ruthless, the most despicable beast in the universe!”
“You say it as if you believe it.”
— Robert Silverberg, book The Man in the Maze
“I do.”
Source: The Man in the Maze (1969), Chapter 8 (p. 118)
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