It is no more rational to have lawyers in positions of power than it would be to have garbage collectors in positions of power. And in human terms garbage collectors would be preferable.

Fragmentation occurs when a civilization is in decline.

Corrupt men are always liars. Lies are their instruments, their pleasure, their solace. In time they come to believe their lies, or rather to half-believe them.

Uncorrupted man, with God's blessing, advances across the fields of the universe as though he were walking down a country lane.

For domination has nothing whatsoever to do with good government, and power as an end in itself destroys good government.

In the Middle Ages the king offered protection to his subjects in return for their loyalty, and the subjects were doubly protected, for the church also sheltered them. The need for shelter - for a father image that cares and will hopefully provide and give some meaning to human lives - remains as real as it was in the Middle Ages, but modern technocracy has no place for either the father or the church and provides no substitute.

It is precisely when we help one another that we gain our victories over corruption, but the victory is assured only when we help one another with all our strength.