If I'm on the titanic I want to be steering.
Only I wasn't steering anything, not even myself.
There are no liberals behind steering wheels.
We may not go about parroting truth and nonviolence and steering clear of them in our daily life.
We disparage reason. But all the time it's what we're most concerned with. There's will as motor and there's will as brakes. Reason is, I suppose, the steering gear.