The idea that we will make a society where literally everybody is graded, the good at the top, bad at the bottom, exactly done as it should be, is impossible. There are simply too many random factors: accidents, accidents of birth, accidents of things dropping on people's heads, illnesses, etc. We will never get to grade them, never get to grade people as they should.

"We are all the sum of our contradictions - that's what makes biography so fascinating."

When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person， or in the same body of magistrates， there can be no liberty.

群体在智力上总是低于孤立的个人。