"There is a great difference, as Plato has shown in the 
    'Gorgias,' between doing as you like and getting what you 
    want. And there is a greater difference still between getting
    what you wanted and finding what you needed."

   "As a form of life and action the practice of any art enters 
    into the vortex of material social currents that aid or impede 
    one another in the world; and these a government, if it would 
    serve the vital liberty of all, must seek to harmonise. It will 
    impose restrictions, and appoint places and occasions to which 
    the special activities of each private society or liberal art
    must be confined so as not to encroach on its neighbours..."

   "Government in this way becomes the rational art of minimising
    the inevitable conflicts of primal irrational Wills against 
    one another and against the forces of nature at large."

    -George Santayana (1863-1952), Dominations and Powers