I
think our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. [...]
we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends, you know. If anybody can
put on paper what our [British] government, and the American
government, and the Russian, Chinese... what they are all trying to do,
and what they THINK they're doing, I'd be very pleased to know what
they think they're doing. I think they're all insane. But I am liable
to be put away as insane for expressing that, you know. That's what is
insane about it. I mean, don't you agree?
— John Lennon, 1968.