Like sensible people throughout history, the average Phoenician wanted as little to do with his government as possible.
I was not speaking of minor ripples in the mainstream of history—certainly those are ruled by chance. But the broad current moves quite inexorably, I assure you.
It sounds rather silly, doesn’t it? One little man thinking he can change history all by his lonesome. A lot of trouble has been caused by that delusion. The Long Way Home (1955)