Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

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.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

Every man is wanted; and no man is wanted much.

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

It is atrick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed,or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

Silencemay be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than tolisten to him?