Every civilization must contend with an unconscious force which can block, betray, or countermand almost any conscious intention of the collectivity.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

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

Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.

Educational bureaucracies dull a child's questing sensitivity. The young must be dampened down. Never let them know how good they can be. That brings change. Spend lots of committee time talking about how to deal with exceptional students. Don't spend any time dealing with how the conventional teacher feels threatened by emerging talents and squelches them because of a deep-seated desire to feel superior and safe in a safe environment.