If Power Corrupts, The Reverse Is Also

The Self-assertive Tendency Is The Dynamic Expression Of The Holon's Wholeness, The Integrative Tendency, The Dynamic Expression Of Its Partness.

In Any Language It Is A Struggle To Make A Sentence Say Exactly What You Mean.

The Revolutionary's Utopia, Which In Appearance Represents A Complete Break With The Past, Is Always Modeled On Some Image Of The Lost Paradise, Of A Legendary Golden Age... All Utopias Are Fed From The Source Of Mythology; The Social Engineers' Blueprints Are Merely Revised Editions Of The Ancient Text.

The Continuous Disasters Of Man's History Are Mainly Due To His Excessive Capacity And Urge To Become Identified With A Tribe, Nation, Church Or Cause, And To Espouse Its Credo Uncritically And Enthusiastically, Even If Its Tenets Are Contrary To Reason, Devoid Of Self-interest And Detrimental To The Claims Of Self-preservation.we Are Thus Driven To The Unfashionable Conclusion That The Trouble With Our Species Is Not An Excess Of Aggression, But An Excess Capacity For Fanatical Devotion.

No Writer Or Teacher Or Artist Can Escape The Responsibility Of Influencing Others Whether He Intends To Or Not, Whether He Is Conscious Of It Or Not.