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“A new-born Government must shine and astonish - the moment it loses its éclat it falls.”

Moments Government Fall Politics Born Loses Power Shining

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Power tends to isolate those who hold too much of it. Eventually, they lose touch with reality ... and fall.”

Reality Fall Loses Power Too Much

Book:Dune Messiah

Source: Dune Messiah

“Kings may see their palaces fall, but the ants will always have their dwellings.”

May Fall Power Kings Palaces Ants Dwelling

Book:Letters of E. de G. Edited by G. S. Trébutien. [Translated from the French.]

Source: Letters of E. de G. Edited by G. S. Trébutien. [Translated from the French.]

“We are dying of preconceptions, outworn rules, decaying flags, venomous religions, and sentimentalities. We need a new world. We've wrenched up all the old roots. The old men have no roots. They don't know it. They just go on talking and flailing away and falling down on the young with their tons of dead weight and their power. For the power is still there, in their life-in-death. But the roots are dead, and the land is poisoned for miles around them.”

Knows Men World Needs Stills Young Fall Talking Power Land Dying Goes On Roots Weight Miles Old Man New World Flags Falling Down Sentimentality Preconceptions Venomous Flailing

Book:The Inland Island

Source: The Inland Island

“Anyone who is kind to man knows the fragmentariness of most men, and wants to arrange a society of power in which men fall naturally into a collective wholeness, since they cannot have an individual wholeness. In this collective wholeness they will be fulfilled. But if they make efforts at individual fulfilment, they must fail for they are by nature fragmentary.”

Ifs Knows Men Want Kind Fall Individual Effort Power Failing Society Collectives Individualism Fulfilled Wholeness Fulfilment

Book:Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation

Source: Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation