Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing to be able to dare! – Fyodor Dostoevsky
One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a mans laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man. – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence they go stark, raving mad. – Fyodor Dostoevsky
The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act. – Charles Hodge