A Lebanese proverb: "If you give a fool a weapon, he will hurt himself". - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

A businessperson cares abt his reputation as it facilitates business, not as an end. For people who aren't free, reputation is the end.

No public institution or agency should be created without an expiration date.

Some people do not know their own interest — just consider addicts, workaholics, people trapped in a bad relationship, people who support large government, the press, book reviewers, or respectable bureaucrats, all of whom for some mysterious reason act against their own interest.