What I say is that 'just' or 'right' means nothing but what is in the interest of the stronger party.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but, when perceived, we cannot help concluding that it is in every case the source of all that is bright and beautiful -in the visible world giving birth to light and its master, and in the intellectual world dispensing, immediately and with full authority, truth and reason -and that whosoever would act wisely, either in private or in public, must set this Form of Good before his eyes.

Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates ... in the soul, and overflows from thence, as from the head into the eyes.