Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action in mind.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
When I need to identify rebels, I look for men with principles
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.
If you live in bad faith, lies will appear to you like the truth.
When a wise man does not understand, he says: "I do not understand." The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance. They remain silent when a question could bring them wisdom.
Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.
Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces.
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.
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.
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
Education is no substitute for intelligence.
Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.
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.
When you think you know something: that is a most perfect barrier against learning.
It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.
Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.
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.
Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained.
Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.
You can't build politics on love. People aren't concerned with love; it's too disordered. They prefer despotism. Too much freedom breeds chaos.
Always prepare secondary ways of dealing with problems.
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.
Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves.
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