Instinct is the nose of the mind.

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Manyspeak much who cannot speak well.

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Given afair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high,not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whateverterms are offered us? No.

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not so sure about being quiet.

Be your own judge and you will be happy.

He understands badly who listens badly.

Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.