Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Use softwords and hard arguments.

Liberty and democracy becomes unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people angry enough to do something about it

Not work, but the thought that he must work is what makes the lazy man tired.

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

He who hurriescannot walk with dignity.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

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.

Evil alone has oil for every wheel

A manneed never revenge himself; the body of his enemy will be brought to his owndoor.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits