To offer a man friendship when love is in his heart is like giving a loaf of bread to one who is dying of thirst.
Ambitions tend to remain undisturbed by realities.
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.
There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times to develop psychic muscles. -- Muad'Dib
Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect all who seek it. . . We should grant power over our affairs only to those who are reluctant to hold it and then only under conditions that increase that reluctance.
Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class -- whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.
I have a surfboard that says 'Linda Hunt Choice TV Actress: Action. ' I am an action star! I don't know what that is about, but I like it.
The average actor might only be able to book six to eight guest star jobs a year - that would be high. So when you start doing the math, you can't live on that in Los Angeles.
It is all too easy for a society to measure itself against some abstract philosophical principle or political slogan. But in the end, there must remain the question: What kind of life is one society providing to the people that live in it?
In every Revolution a dictator is needed to save the state by force, or censors to save it by virtue.