A hero is no braver than anyone else; he is only brave minutes longer

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.

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

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

Themost important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

Status symbols are medals you buy yourself

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

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.

Any man's death diminishes me, because i am involved in mankind; and, therefore, never tend to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.