The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it.
FEAR IS THE MIND-KILLER. FEAR IS THE LITTLE-DEATH THAT BRINGS TOTAL OBLITERATION.
When you think you know something: that is a most perfect barrier against learning.
Growth is limited by that necessity which is present in the least amount.
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.
Something cannot emerge from nothing.