1. The problem of government is not a problem of leadership or of institutions. The problem of government is that it seeks to solve the problem itself. When we ask ourselves, why the government is inefficient, we miss the entire point of asking. Why be governed?
2.The work of government is not to serve. In fact, when the government works, it stops serving. It becomes a machine of its own. The only way a government can serve is when it stops governing and people start governing each other.
3. Our present order is not properly ordered. The only proper order is dis-order: the acknowledgment that the properly ordered is always a product of an order itself. To dis-order is to reveal that there is nothing natural with order.
4. Unity means the loss of distinctions: the absorption of oneself into the other. Diversity means the tragic alienation of one from each other: the rule of all under the rule of none. These two must be avoided if we are to dwell with each other. Distance is the sine qua non of politics.
5. Truth does not give us anything to act upon. It is in fact a paralyzing event. The moment of truth is the moment of inactivity. Any appeal to truth is a disarming political tactic. The truth does not set us free; it is the recipe for indolence. But our understanding of freedom is unfree, so we seek the truth.
6. Servant leadership removes accountability. It is totalitarian. It effaces authority.
7. Saying something means doing something. Doing something means saying something. The injunction walk the talk takes walking to be without talking and talking without walking when in fact they constitute each other.
8. All politics is democratic. Nothing else is. The emancipation of man from politics is his emasculation from a democratic future and possibility.
9. Underlying the urge to know is an urge to control, to put an end to mystery, to stabilize. Yet knowledge is not always stable or subject to control. Knowing then is a mystery itself and is controlled by mystery.
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