Evil alone has oil for every wheel

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

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

Religion is behaviour and not mere belief.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

The directuse of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employedonly by small children and large nations.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of cancer cell.

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.