Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it's in there.

History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to write propaganda.

I am disturbed for instance when I read that a candidate said, 'I will not probe anybody or something like that'. You don't fight corruption by sweeping everything under the carpet, you don't.

Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.

The man dies in all those that keep silent.