Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

Ourlives are not dependent on whether or not we have conflict. It is what we dowith conflict that makes the difference.

There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.

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.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

Don't consideryour reputation and you may do anything you like.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

The directuse of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employedonly by small children and large nations.

Conflictis neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

If you ain'tnever pick up the sword, you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.