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

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

A slyrabbit will have three openings to its den.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

Reformers are those who educate people to appreciate the things they need.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

We'reeyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

No matter how good the idea of the other fellow may be, there is always a better one !

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.