A Stalin functionary admitted, "Innocent people were arrested: naturally - otherwise no one would be frightened. If people, he said, were arrested only for specific misdemeanours, all the others would feel safe and so become ripe for treason. Paul Johnson
At the appointed time, necessities become ripe. That is the time when the Creative Spirit (which one can also designate as the Abstract Spirit) finds an avenue to the soul, later to other souls, and causes a yearning, an inner urge. Wassily Kandinsky
We were all surprised how smooth it went, relative to what was expected. It took Israeli society time, 10 years, to become ripe for such a move. Yitzhak Rabin