Sciencecannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame thedebates about those conflicts.

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.

By tryingoften, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

Religion is behaviour and not mere belief.

Don'tconsider your reputation and you may do anything you like.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

I’mwillin’ for any solution — religious, political. I’m not going to keepofferin’ to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.