Evil alone has oil for every wheel

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Contradictionshould awaken Attention, not Passion.

Manmust evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge,aggression, and retaliation.

Thefire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.

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

No one is free who does not Lord over himself.

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.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.