Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort. All issues are political issues. Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. They spend their time mostly looking forward to the past.
Chance is always powerful.
Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish. If you want to be loved, be lovable. When, in countries that are called civilized, we see age going to the workhouse and youth to the gallows, something must be wrong in the system of government. The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.