Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

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

The planers do not make or mar our destiny. we are the makers of our destiny.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

One of the difficult things to give away is kindness - is usually returned

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

The man who opts for revenge should dig two graves.

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.

Thereward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

Honesty once pawned is never redeemed.

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

Nevermiss a good chance to shut up.