Fickleness

"Now we're in that sweet period where everyone agrees that our recent horrors should never be repeated," he says. "But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction. Although who knows? Maybe this will be it, Katniss."

- Plutarch, from the book "Mockingjay", the third in the Hunger Games Trilogy, written by Suzanne Collins