The fundamental concept

The fundamental concept
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
  

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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.
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.
Honesty and Wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense !
Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.
If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.
The mostintense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calmthat is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and theirconflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.
Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.
Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.
Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
It'snot hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.