I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Don'tthrow out the baby with the bath water.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

The easiest,the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within anorganization is to pretend it does not exist.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

Ittakes time to save time.

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.