"The single raindrop never feels responsible for the flood."
"And for all the richest and most successful merchants life inevitably became rather dull and niggly, and they began to imagine that this was therefore the fault of the worlds they'd settled on."
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Source: Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.76, Pan Macmillan
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