The most powerful place you can come from is just having a really deep knowing of who you are and what you want for yourself.
Membership in a conspiracy, as in an army, frees people from the sense of personal responsibility.
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.
That some have never dreamed is as improbable as that some have never laughed.
No director wants to be directed, but no good director. . . would shy away from the good ideas of others.
In Hollywood, she's revered, she gets nominated for Oscars, but I've never heard anyone in the public or among my friends say, 'Oh, I love Winona Ryder. '
The sole purpose and effect of it is to exclude persecution and to secure the important right of religious liberty.