To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Manmust evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge,aggression, and retaliation.

We donot have to agree; we do need to understand.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold himdown, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Ignoring is not the same thing as being tolerant

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.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Thedifference between the right word and the almost right word is the differencebetween lightning and a lightning bug.

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.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

There'sno need to fear the wind if your haystacks are tied down.

There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.