Monstrous Regiment (Discworld, #31; Industrial Revolution, #3)

by Terry Pratchett

You take a bunch of people who don’t seem any different from you and me, but when you add them all together you get this sort of huge raving maniac with national borders and an anthem.”

The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they’ve found it.

The enemy wasn’t men, or women, or the old, or even the dead. It was just bleedin’ stupid people, who came in all varieties. And no one had the right to be stupid.