“Pretense cannot sustain blind power.”

“But belief in a system cannot be sustained for ever. Empires based solely on power and domination, while allowing their subjects to do as they will, can last for centuries. Those that try to control the everyday lives of their people are much harder to sustain.”

“There is a great force in renunciation of power that those who are blinded by the lust for domination cannot understand because those who truly love do not desire power.”

“We cannot hope to create a sustainable culture with any but sustainable souls.”

“What is leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was based on reason”

“What was leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was based on reason?”