I am not the river I am the net.

One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.

The undeserving maintain power by promoting hysteria.

There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.

Law is the ultimate science.

A creature who has spent his life creating one particular representation of his selfdom will die rather than become the antithesis of that representation