Reasonand emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between twoopposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifestsitself in the form of a feeling.

"Man wishes2fly like a bird,sing like cuckoo,dance like a peacock,swim like a fish,But Man dosnt wish2live like a man"

Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

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

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

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.

A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait untilthe deadline looms large.