A nation must think before it acts.
“The Little Prince…points to a primordial source of political order—friendship—that is ignored by The Prince. Friendship—filos to the ancient Greeks—is foundational of social order. Without it, polities are either fragile or overbearing, yet state policies have little control over friendship, or what we moderns sometimes reduce to social trust or social capital. Hence, the Little Prince comes before politics and serves as a limit to it.”