And I think he actually believes the best way to do it is to gain a dictatorship over the Solar System. That ambition rules everything in his life. I… - Clifford D. Simak

You say a thing so often and so well that after a time everyone believes it. Even, finally, yourself.

We have fallen on hard times of the spirit, with many of the people more concerned with fear of evil than contemplation of the good.

The alien stood in shadow and he looked, Enoch thought, more than ever like the cruel clown. His lithe, flowing body had the look of smoked, tanned buckskin. The patchwork color of his hide seemed to shine with a faint luminescence and the sharp, hard angles of his face, the smooth baldness of his head, the flat, pointed ears pasted tight against the skull lent him a vicious fearsomeness. If one did not know him for the gentle character that he was, Enoch told himself, he would be enough to scare a man out of seven years of growth.