What you cannot control, you must accept.

A leader is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. He maintains the level of individuals. Too few individuals and a people reverts to a mob.

Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class -- whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.

When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.

If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you.

What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking-there’s the real danger.

If there is a difference between what is said and what is done, only a fool believes what was said.