Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

Truepeace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

Reformers are those who educate people to appreciate the things they need.

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

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.

Beon a horse when you go in search of a better one.

Man's life would be wretched and confined if it were to missthe candid intimacy developed by mutual trust and esteem.

Whenevertwo people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he seeshimself, each man as the other sees him, and each man as he really is.

Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.