Face your fears or they will climb over your back.

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.

Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.

Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?

Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by his claim and thus set the bloody pendulum of revenge into its inexorable motion

There's hope left in these dusty chords. There's a song left in our rusty hearts. We are torn and frayed but love remains.

The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in.