I have learned from my experiences that hatred and racial antagonism can be manufactured by the politicians of any one country against any other, so … - Michael Moorcock

There is less danger, gentlemen, in living according to a set of high moral principles than most politicians believe.

Light suddenly caught the steel of his helmet and made it burn like the face of some mighty fallen angel. It could have been the face of Lucifer himself. I felt then that he was perfectly capable of destroying the whole world without a shred of remorse if he believed that he could not, himself, go on living. Such creatures, I remember thinking, have always dwelt among us. They would reduce the multiverse to ash, if they could. Why, I agonized, can we not recognize them and stop them before they achieve so much power? A tiny part of the human race was responsible for the misery of the majority.
I thought again of the injustices which we ourselves casually perpetrated and I wondered how we should ever set anything to rights while we continued to allow such vast discrepancy, so much at odds with the religious and political principles we claim as our daily guides.

To the fearful all things are chaotic. That’s how you get religion (and its bastard child, politics).