Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again

One person with a belief is a social power equal to nintynine who have only interest.

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.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.

The planers do not make or mar our destiny. we are the makers of our destiny.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Theproblem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.

If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to.

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Be notdisturbed at being misunderstood; be disturbed at not understanding.