Anyone who spoke of themselves in the third person was a self-declared idiot. The urge to excel and the urge to lead aren't the same. As nature abhors a vacuum, people abhor anarchy. And once you had that freedom, any more wealth or power actually began to restrict one's options, and reduce one's freedom. One became a servant of one's wealth or power, constrained to spend all one's time protecting it.
Women are the roots, men are just the leaves.
You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one fucking idiot. True intimacy does not consist of sexual intercourse. Righteousness - it is a most unpleasant quality in a person. It was in the moments of greatest need when people could do the least for each other. It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power.