One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

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.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

The amount of effort put into a campaign by a worker expands in proportion to the personal benefits that he will derive from his party's victory.

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love, and something to hope for.

Let not thy will roar, when the power can but whisper.

People who can't admit they are part of the problem, willnever be part of its solution.

Whenthere is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold himdown, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.