Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

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.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

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.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

Evil alone has oil for every wheel

No manever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greaterto himself .

An individual without information can't takeresponsibility. An individual with information can't help but takeresponsibility.

Wecannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, andrepetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of thesituation.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.