The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Frustration is commonly the difference between what you would like to be and what you are willing to become what you would like to be.

Nothing is a permanent except change.

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outbrust of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Some People strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

Silenceis foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

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.

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

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

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.