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

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give itaway.

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.

Ability is poor men's wealth

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Truepeace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

No manever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greaterto himself .

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.