Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather than competitive goals.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

He whois unable to dance says the yard is stony.

Ourlives are not dependent on whether or not we have conflict. It is what we dowith conflict that makes the difference.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Outside noisy, inside empty.