Opportunists take now for an answer.

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

No one wouldtalk much in society; if he knew how often he misunderstands others.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

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.

You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your handand showing it to them!

Everyoneis kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.

Wordsare, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

A man sits as many risks as he runs.

Glory is a poison that can only be taken in small doses.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

The present is never a happy state to any being