“ Generosity with strings is not generosity: it is a deal. ”
Borders are scratched across the hearts of men, by strangers with a calm, judicial pen, and when the borders bleed we watch with dread the lines of ink along the map turn red.
~ Marya Mannes
It's never what you say but how you make it sound sincere.
To lead means to direct and to exact and no man dares do either - he might be unpopular. What authority we are given now is a trinity: the grin the generality and God (the Word).
In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.
