If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

The property of power is to protect.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Peopledo not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but tomaintain an opinion for the sake of talking.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

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.

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

By being pleasant always and smiling, it takes you nearer to God; Nearer than any prayer.

Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-voilent structure of society.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.