" How to start a war? Nurture your own latent hungers for power. Forget that only madmen pursue power for its own sake. Let such madmen gain power — even you. Let such madmen act behind their conventional masks of sanity. Whether their masks be fashioned from the delusions of defense or the theological aura of law, war will come.
— Gowachin aphorism "

― Frank Herbert , The Dosadi Experiment (ConSentiency Universe, #2)