Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

Somepeople reach the top of the ladder only to find it is leaning against thewrong wall.

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.

Given afair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high,not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whateverterms are offered us? No.

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

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

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

Frustration is commonly the difference between what you would like to be and what you are willing to become what you would like to be.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

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

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.