Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

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.

Step after step the ladder is ascended

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

The cliche that education never ends virtually ensures that it does'nt begin.

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

People who fight with fire usually end up with ashes.