Nothing has happend to you unless you make much of it.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

The problem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.

Allthings are ready, if our minds be so.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

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.

Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

Man's life would be wretched and confined if it were to missthe candid intimacy developed by mutual trust and esteem.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

A teacher as a person is more important than a teacher as a technician. What he is has more effect than anything he does.