Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

You grow up the day you have first real laugh - at yourself

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a questionremains a fool forever.

Asingle conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

What dowe live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.

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.

Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

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.