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

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

A school should be the most beautiful place in every town- so beautiful tht the punishment for undutiful children should be that they be debarred from going to school the following day.

The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Nevermistake silence for agreement.

Thedeeper the waters are, the more still they run.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

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.

If youcan make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believeyou.