Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

If youcould kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Evena sheet of paper has two sides.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

I’mwilling for any solution religious, political. I’m not going to keepoffering to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

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

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.

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.