In terra di ciechi chi vi ha un occhio è signore. - Niccolò Machiavelli

Men in general judge more by the sense of sight than by the sense of touch, because everyone can see but few can test by feeling. Everyone sees what you seem to be, few know what you really are; and those few do not dare take a stand against the general opinion.

I am not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

... If in other respects the old condition of things be continued, and there be no discordance in their customs, men live peaceably with one another...