The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

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.

Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-voilent structure of society.

Opportunists take now for an answer.

If you don't know where you're going, you'll end upsomewhere else.

Nomatter how thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

A peace which depends upon fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.