It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

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.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

Ifpassion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Life, Like a child, laughs shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

You canobserve a lot by just watching.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinksyou have.

Somepeople reach the top of the ladder only to find it is leaning against thewrong wall.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state that cunning men pass for wise.