Well-managed,cooperative conflict contributes to the productivity and innovativeness oforganizations and the competence and well-being of people.

Deep-seatedpreferences cannot be argued about.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

Ifyou wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Talkingmuch about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.

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.

Unresolved:A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

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.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

Thereis all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.