Give Me A Lamp So I Can

The People I Distrust Most Are Those Who Want To Improve Our Lives But Have Only One Course Of Action In Mind.

Empires Do Not Suffer Emptiness Of Purpose At The Time Of Their Creation. It Is When They Have Become Established That Aims Are Lost And Replaced By Vague Ritual.

The Mistakes (of Leaders) Are Amplified By The Numbers Who Follow Them Without Question. Charismatic Leaders Tend To Build Up Followings, Power Structures And These Power Structures Tend To Be Taken Over By People Who Are Corruptible. I Don't Think That The Old Saw About 'power Corrupts And Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely' Is Accurate: I Think Power Attracts The Corruptible.

The Best Contribution One Can Make To Humanity Is To Improve Oneself.

I Don’t Think It’s Quite That Simple. Some People Never Observe Anything, Life Just Happens To Them. They Get By On Little More Than A Kind Of Dumb Persistence, And They Resist With Anger And Resentment Anything That Might Lift Them Out Of That False Serenity.