I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

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.

One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

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

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

Asingle conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

Any man's death diminishes me, because i am involved in mankind; and, therefore, never tend to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.

Our power is in our ability to decide.