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

Love is an act of faith and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

He who is unable to dance says the yard is stony.

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.

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.

Anyone whoconducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

Whenpeople say women can’t be trusted because they cycle every month, myresponse is that men cycle every day, so they should only be allowed tonegotiate peace treaties in the evening.

Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

To exaggrerate is to weaken.

Whoeverhas the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you tryto dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolveconflict, not how to start it.

The spokenword belongs half to him who speaks, and half to him who listens.

Too little liberty brings stagnation, too much brings chaos.