Talent comes with an individual name tag.

There is as far as I know, no example in history, of any state voluntarily ceding power from the centre to its constituent parts.

The market is a mechanism for sorting the efficient from the inefficient, it is not a substitute for responsibility.

Profit has to be a means to other ends rather than an end in itself.

Creativity needs a bit of untidiness. Make everything too neat and there is no room for experiment.

We cannot wait for great visions from great people, for they are in short supply. It is up to us to light our own small fires in the darkness.

Ordinary citizens are so accepting of what is going on, grumbling when their material interests were affected, but seemingly accepting the spiritual poverty so characteristic of today.