Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather thancompetitive goals.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

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.

Better ask ten times than go astray once.

Artists can color the sky red because they know its blue.those of us who are not artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we are stupid.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

Nevermistake silence for agreement.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Suffer fools gladly, they might be right.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

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