Thego-between wears out a thousand sandals.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Silenceis foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

A caricature is always ture only for an instant.

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinksyou have.

A teleision set is like a toaster. You press a button and the same thing pops up almost every time.

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.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

Untrained intelligence is as much of use as a bottle without an opener.