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.

Fragmentation occurs when a civilization is in decline.

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

The United States is dangerously close to being a plutocracy. A third of the private wealth is owned by less than 5 percent of the population.

A nation's wealth is too serious a matter to be left to the wealthy. The riches of a nation belong to all, to be shared among all for the general welfare.

Nietzsche's accomplishment is that he permits us to see corruption from the inside.

The game of power is played remorselessly by men who have not the slightest knowledge of, or interest in, the way ordinary people live, and the ordinary people are too terrified to protest.