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.

There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

As long as there is life there is danger.

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

There are two kind of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. try to be in the first group; there is a less competition there.

Speak whenyou are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

The majority of mankind always has been and always will be composed of imbeciles.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.