"The likelihood seems farfetched." "So have several of the situations in which we have found ourselves in the recent past," I said. "But you are reso… - Matt Hughes

I had no doubt that there was madness here. How could it be otherwise in a cosmos that was ordered solely by will? It did not mean that the insane would automatically rise to the apex of the social order; their efforts would be diffused by the randomness of the impulses that drove them. But those whose extraordinary powers of will propelled them to the heights of power and rank would always be vulnerable to going further than they should. And there would be none but their equally mad rivals to restrain them.

Assigning blame is a fixation of an ineffective mind.

In any case”—he gestured at the car—“this vehicle has achieved a state of permanent inanimation.