All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. - Frank Herbert

The limit of the law is the limit of enforcement — the real limit of organized society.

By the time we awaken faintly to the awareness that we have been socially conditioned, we find ourselves so indoctrinated that it's difficult, if not impossible, to break the old patterns … Survival pressures demanding that we evolve, grow, and change, however, continue to proliferate. We don't want to change, but the floodgates open abruptly and we are overwhelmed.
Crisis!

At the age of fifteen, he had already learned silence.