There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

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

Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained.

Ecology is often confused with environmentalism, while in fact, environmentalism often leaves out the fact that people, too, can be a legitimate part of an ecosystem.

What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce. ... Men must want to do things of their own innermost drives. People, not commercial organizations or chains of command, are what make great civilizations work. Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness - they cannot work and their civilization collapses.

We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us.

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.