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

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

Habit: the shackles of the free

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

We donot have to agree; we do need to understand.

He who is overcautious will accomplish little.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

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.

Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.