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.

Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention.

She looked at patches of blackness. Black is a blind remembering, she thought.

The ferocity we show our foes must be tempered by the lesson we hope to teach.

The universe does not work by our rules

He who controls the spice controls the universe.

That path leads ever down into stagnation.