Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

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

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

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

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Prejudice is a disease characterised by hardening of categories.

Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.