You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

Labour with what zeal we will. Something still remains undone.

Frustration is commonly the difference between what you would like to be and what you are willing to become what you would like to be.

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

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.