In The Transmission Of Human Culture, People

We Do Not Know Enough About How The Present Will Lead Into The Future.

What Is True Is That The Idea Of Power Corrupts. Power Corrupts Most Rapidly Those Who Believe In It, And It Is They Who Will Want It Most. Obviously, Our Democratic System Tends To Give Power To Those Who Hunger For It And Gives Every Opportunity To Those Who Don't Want Power To Avoid Getting It. Not A Very Satisfactory Arrangement If Power Corrupts Those Who Believe In It And Want It.

The Pathology Is To Want Control, Not That You Ever Get It, Because Of Course You Never Do.

The Wise Legislator Will Only Rarely Initiate A New Rule Of Behaviour; More Usually He Will Confine Himself To Affirming In Law What Has Already Become The Custom Of The People.

Numbers Are The Product Of Counting. Quantities Are The Product Of Measurement. This Means That Numbers Can Conceivably Be Accurate Because There Is A Discontinuity Between Each Integer And The Next. Between Two And Three There Is A Jump. In The Case Of Quantity, There Is No Such Jump; And Because Jump Is Missing In The World Of Quantity, It Is Impossible For Any Quantity To Be Exact. You Can Have Exactly Three Tomatoes. You Can Never Have Exactly Three Gallons Of Water. Always Quantity Is Approximate.