The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.
Good subjects must feel guilty. The guilt begins as a feeling of failure. The good autocrat provides many opportunities for failure in the populace.
Educational bureaucracies dull a child's questing sensitivity.
There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.
Law is the ultimate science.
Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed.