If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

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.

There is a sweet joy that comes to us after sorrow.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Thosewho are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.

The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.