Within-groupconflict is always personal and emotional even if it begins with impersonalissues.

If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to.

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

Miracles enables us to judge of doctrine and doctrine enable us to judge of miracles.

Whoever does not know the truth is ignorant, but the one who knows the truth but denies is a criminal

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

Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Tofight fear, act. To increase fear wait, put off, postpone.

If anenemy is annoying you by playing well, consider adopting his strategy.

The principle of equal protection is a positive concept implying equality of treatment in equal circumstances.