No one is free who does not Lord over himself.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.

Hear me,my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun nowstands, I will fight no more forever.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.