“What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.”

“By what right do men exercise power over each other?”

“The imagination is man's power over nature.”

“For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means... the power of some men to make other men what THEY please.”

“And the good ruler is precisely the one who exercises his power as it ought to be exercised, that is, simultaneously exercising his power over himself. And it is the power over oneself that thus regulates one's power over others.”

“Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power. Government is necessary to preserve our freedom, it is an instrument through which we can exercise our freedom; yet by concentrating power in political hands, it is also a threat to freedom. Even though the men who wield this power initially be of good will and even though they be not corrupted by the power they exercise, the power will both attract and form men of a different stamp.”