Within-groupconflict is always personal and emotional even if it begins with impersonalissues.

Man's life would be wretched and confined if it were to missthe candid intimacy developed by mutual trust and esteem.

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.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Thefire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

Thedifficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather toknow it.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

He who hurriescannot walk with dignity.