Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

It is less dangerous to treat most men badly than to treat them too well.

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.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

Thefreedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those whosay, What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.

Theultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands.

Imagination is useful as long as it remains practical.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

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.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.