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

The small Hitlers are around us every day.

A culture is not only the language and the arts of a people. It is all their history, all their hopes for the future.

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.

A totalitarian dictatorship cannot explain; it can only suppress.

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.

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.