Assumptionof cooperative goals leads to viewing the conflict as a common problem to besolved for mutual benefit.

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

If you follow me, I may lead you straight to hell, but ifyou trust me, I will lead you back out again.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

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.

Byfailing to prepare you are preparing to fail.

Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.