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

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the goodintentions of those who create it.

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.

It's good to shut up sometimes.

Thefirst principle of contract negotiation is don'tremind them of what you did in the past; tell them what you're going to do inthe future.

Honesty once pawned is never redeemed.

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

The more you seat in peace, the less you bleed in war

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

The World is but, a school of inquiry.

Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken