The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action in mind.
Every civilization depends on the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness-they cannot work and their civilization collapses.
Good governance never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders.
Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.
Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible.
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.
Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves.
Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained.
Technology is both a tool for helping humans and for destroying them. This is the paradox of our times which we're compelled to face.
Ideas are a dime a dozen. It's execution that counts.
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.
This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.
It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.
Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces.
Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed.
Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.
Reason is the first victim of strong emotion.
Education is no substitute for intelligence.
When you think you know something: that is a most perfect barrier against learning.
If I'd been born in my grandfather's time, I'd have made my grandfather's mistakes. Theres no doubt of it. I just don't want to make my grandfather's mistakes today.
Always prepare secondary ways of dealing with problems.
Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.
No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer.
I don’t think it’s quite that simple. Some people never observe anything, Life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything that might lift them out of that false serenity.
Truth suffers from too much analysis.
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