When you feel yourself starting to become whole, it's alright to accept positions of
power, but not before then. The overriding problem with our country, and our
world in general, is that we are in large part, managed by incompetents. Most
of these are men who have spent their lives seeking power rather then themselves.

Consequently, we are confronted with the grotesque spectacle of working for
childish figures half-baked little generals with overblown egos and no more understanding
of the search for meaning than some primitive, base organism spending it's time feeding
on the lives and feelings of others, guzzling them up like strained peaches, cackling
to themselves as they play shell games with other people's destinies.

Robert James Waller