If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

Law of the Minimum: "The worst potential competition for any organism can come from its own kind. The species consumes necessities. Growth is limited by that necessity which is present in the least amount. The least favourable condition controls the rate of growth."

The greatest and most important problems of life cannot be solved. They can only be outgrown.

It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.

Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

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.