Nomatter how thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

A merefriend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.

There'sno need to fear the wind if your haystacks are tied down.

Whenthere is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day

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.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

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.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Silenceis foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.