[Pearls Before Swine]

The desire to justify policies that undermine society, has become a religion to these people.

"Whom the god would destroy, they first make mad."

--"The Masque of Pandora" (1875), by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Aside: I thought it was from the Greeks, but Wikipedia seems to think otherwise.

[redangus]

Sophocles, from ‘Antigone’. I think he was Greek and a little before Longfellow’s time. You can’t believe everything Wiki tells you.