Afanatic is a person who can’t change his mind and won’t change.

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; Easy to govern, but impossible to enslave

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.

Success is often the result of taking a mis-step in the right direction.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

The loftierthe building the deeper the foundation must be.

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not hethat you wrong but yourself.

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.