“We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.”– P. J. O’Rourke Related Quotes “The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.”– Reinhold Niebuhr “The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders’ attitudes toward risk – and failure.”– Dee Dee Myers “Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.”– Nikita Khrushchev