This one is a bit more cynical–okay, very much more cynical–than the last quotation I shared. It still seemed appropriate for today.
The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
To summarise: it is a well-known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarise the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarise the summary of the summary: people are a problem.
—Douglas Adams
from The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
That nifty drawing of Zaphod was drawn by Terry Cooper.
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