A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

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.

Conflictbuilds character. Crisis defines it.

Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

No battle is more sorely lost that the one not fought

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

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.

Some people suffer in silence louder than others

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

There is much more learning than knowing in the world.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.