“Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.” - Dr Thomas Sowell
From here. I also vaguely remember some old-ass Egyptian statutes (still standing) that got hit with an earthquake a thousands of years back. After that, certain people, to this day even, claim they hear a whistling or wind-blowey sound or something.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."