Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

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.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

Beon a horse when you go in search of a better one.

Aproblem is a chance for you to do your best.

Hatred does not not cease by hatred; but only by rule; this is the eternal rule.

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

Why don'tyou want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is thatyou're in conflict with yourself.

Every advantage has its tax

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.