All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.

That path leads ever down into stagnation.

When politics and religion are intermingled, a people is suffused with a sense of invulnerability, and gathering speed in their forward charge, they fail to see the cliff ahead of them

I'm going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid. I don't find it strange that all you want to believe is only that which comforts you. How else do humans invent the traps which betray us into mediocrity? How else do we define cowardice?

The most terrifying things in the universe came from human minds.

The greatest and most important problems of life cannot be solved. They can only be outgrown.

Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history.