“Governments everywhere are lying to people to make them hate others that they wouldn't have any quarrel with otherwise.”

—  James P. Hogan

Source: Paths to Otherwhere (1996), Ch. 28; this has occurred in paraphrased form as "Sane, normal people don't need power trips. So the lunatics end up in charge of everything."
Context: Governments everywhere are lying to people to make them hate others that they wouldn't have any quarrel with otherwise. You'd think they'd have learned something after two world wars, but where else can it lead than right where it's all going?
Theo's right — the lunatics end up in charge of everything. Sane, normal people don't need power trips.

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