Never pass by a chance to shut up. - Robert Silverberg

He named the names of gods. He named the names of kings—the secret names, the names they had worn as princes, before they became the newest Harinamur. He called upon all the forces of the universe to free himself from—
Me.

You can make no meaningful evaluations of the universe without the confidence that you are seeing it clearly.

Political theorists tend to swallow their theories when forced back on pragmatic measures of survival.