If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

Thedirect use of force is such a poor solution to any problem,it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

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.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

No one is rich enough to do without neighbour.

Thewill to win is worthless if you do not have the will to prepare.
Beforeyou build a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

Silencemay be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than tolisten to him?

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.

Silenceis argument carried out by other means.

Twoprisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on thewall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Therecan be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. Hisinstinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, hemost illogically kicks up a row.