Nothing is more revolting than the majority; for it consists of few vigorous predecessors, of knaves who accommodate themselves, of weak people who assimilate themselves, and the mass that toddles after them without knowing in the least what it wants
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
Ambrose Bierce
Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune`s bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.
Alison Goss