Every advantage has its tax

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

Whenevertwo people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he seeshimself, each man as the other sees him, and each man as he really is.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Throughconflict we get to unity.

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

To like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Conflictcan be seen as a gift of energy, in which neither sideloses and a new dance is created.

A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it