There is as far as I know, no example in history, of any state voluntarily ceding power from the centre to its constituent parts.
Charles HandyThe sobering thought is that individuals and societies are not, in the end, remembered for how they made their money, but for how they spent it.
Charles HandyI believe that a lot of our striving after the symbols and levers of success is due to a basic insecurity, a need to prove ourselves. That done, grown up at last, we are free to stop pretending.
Charles Handy