There'sno point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

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 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.

Trust is difficult to define, but we know when it's presentand when it's not.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

The present is never a happy state to any being

Theeasiest, the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflictwithin an organization is to pretend it does notexist.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important