Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left to us for testing our universe.

Beaurocracy destroys initiative.

Men always fear things which move by themselves.

I'm the well-trained fruit tree. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me

A man is a fool not to put everything he has, at any given moment, into what he is creating.

The ferocity we show our foes must be tempered by the lesson we hope to teach.

The mistakes (of leaders) are amplified by the numbers who follow them without question. Charismatic leaders tend to build up followings, power structures and these power structures tend to be taken over by people who are corruptible. I don't think that the old saw about 'power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely' is accurate: I think power attracts the corruptible.