There is as far as I know, no example in history, of any state voluntarily ceding power from the centre to its constituent parts..

Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state..

When you eat pure food that isn't genetically modified, your physical and mental state does improve and it's worth the effort to make that happen..

The fish cannot leave the deep waters. The state's weaponry should not be displayed..

You belong neither to God nor the state nor me. You belong to yourself and no one else..

Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart..

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state..

The greatest threat to the state is not faction but distraction.