Russell

“Now look: if instead of a palace there is a chicken coop, and it starts to rain, I will perhaps get into the chicken coop to avoid a wetting, but all the same I will not take the chicken coop for a palace out of gratitude for its having kept me from the rain. You laugh, you even say that in that case it makes no difference - chicken coop or mansion. Yes, say I, if one were to live only so as not to get wet.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

“All this time, I thought we were fighting evil. Evil on the loose, run amok. But that's not it at all. What we're up against is more like a plague. A plague of fools.”
― Terry Goodkind, Wizard's First Rule

“The concept of an imported epidemic laying wast to vulnerable native inhabitants works just as well applied to the British, and other colonial nations, as it does to fungal spores.”
― Nicholas P. Money, The Triumph of the Fungi: A Rotten History