In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.

Itis all right if you talk to yourself. It is all right if you answer yourself.But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem.

The property of power is to protect.

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Weagree completely on everything, including the fact we don't see eye to eye.

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.