Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and has powers of reality.
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
A world is supported by four things: the learning of wise, the justice of great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing without a ruler who knows the art of ruling.
Something cannot emerge from nothing.
When religion and politics ride in the same cart, the whirlwind follows.
In politics, the tripod is he most unstable of all structures. It's be bad enough without the complication of a feudal trade culture which turns its back on most science.