That Path Leads Ever Down Into Stagnation.

Power Attracts The Corruptible. Suspect All Who Seek It ... We Should Grant Power Over Our Affairs Only To Those Who Are Reluctant To Hold It And Then Only Under Conditions That Increase That Reluctance.

If All Those Around You Believe Some Particular Thing, You Will Soon Be Tempted To Share In That Belief.

Governments, If They Endure, Always Tend Increasingly Toward Aristocratic Forms. No Government In History Has Been Known To Evade This Pattern. And As The Aristocracy Develops, Government Tends More And More To Act Exclusively In The Interests Of The Ruling Class -- Whether That Class Be Hereditary Royalty, Oligarchs Of Financial Empires, Or Entrenched Bureaucracy.

There Are Problems In This Universe For Which There Are No Answers. Nothing. Nothing Can Be Done.

If You Live In Bad Faith, Lies Will Appear To You Like The Truth.