Assumptionof cooperative goals leads to viewing the conflict as a common problem to besolved for mutual benefit.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

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.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

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