Aaron Ingebrigtsen

“All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.”
― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

“After having striven long in vain to solve the insoluble problem — the problem of constructing a government “which will constrain the individual to obedience without itself ceasing to be the servant of society,” men at last attempt to free themselves from every form of government and to satisfy their need for organization by a free contract between individuals and groups pursuing the same aim. The independence of each small territorial unit becomes a pressing need; mutual agreement replaces law, and everywhere regulates individual interests in view of a common object.”
― Pyotr Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread: The Founding Book of Anarchism

“To have a child is the greatest honor and responsibility that can be bestowed upon any living being.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eragon

“Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn’t exist and never shall. There is only now.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eragon / Eldest / Brisingr / Inheritance