“The only proper course of action regarding humanity was to leave it alone, and, if possible, isolate it. Just as one would handle any other sophont that was quite irremediably and dangerously insane.”

Source: Trial by Fire (2014), Chapter 40 (p. 577)

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American novelist 1960

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