People are a problem (Adams)
January 9th, 2007 | Published in Humor and Satire, Politics, Quotes
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.
–Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980) in The More Than Complete Hitchhiker’s Guide, p. 278