Embracingconflict can become a joy when we know that irritation and frustration canlead to growth and fascination.

Real swaraj will come not by the acquisition of authority by a few but by the acquisition of capacity by all to resist authority when it is abused

Extremiststhink communication means agreeing with them.

In all superstitions wise men follow fools.

The weaknesses of many make leader possible.

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.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

The property of power is to protect.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol