The strongest is never strong enough to be always, the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

Distancedoesn't matter. It is only the first step that is difficult.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Humality is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

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

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Those who trust us educate us.

Love is an act of faith and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.