Anempty sack cannot stand up.

There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Life without the Courage is death for slavery.

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

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.

Evil communication corrupt good manners.

Whenyou lose, don't lose the lesson.