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.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Thereis nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries thanan agreement.

Teaching may contribute to certain kinds of learning under certain circumstances.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after while he gets to know something.

The majority of mankind always has been and always will be composed of imbeciles.

Silenceis the mother of truth.

You make a mountain of a mole-hill.

Man is born free, and everywhere is is in chains

Consistencyrequires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

Contradictionshould awaken Attention, not Passion.