The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before.
Because simplicity isn't the greatest thing in the world, but love.
It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true, or the suppression of things that are true.
Political liberty is nothing else but the diffusion of power.
The principal mechanism for convergence at the international as well as the domestic level is the diffusion of knowledge.
The diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the improvement of taste.
Accumulation of power is as necessary as its diffusion, or rather more so.