Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Prejudice is a disease characterised by hardening of categories.

The rulers must be watched, not the ruled.

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

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.

Man alone contains within himself as many species as exist on earth.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.

Ifanyone is not willing to accept your point of view, try to see his point of view.

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached.

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.