The most successful societies are those that have been able to balance the need for a strong state with the need for individual freedom.
The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success.
When something terrible happens people wake up.
I can resist everything except temptation.