"It is always the enemy who started it, even if he was not the first to speak out, he was certainly planning it; and if he was not actually planning it, he was thinking of it; and, if he was not thinking of it, he would have thought of it."
Elias Canetti was a Bulgarian-born writer in the German language and the winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Literature. His notable works include Auto-da-Fe and the study Crowds and Power.