Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Peacecan not be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Ourlonging for understandingis Eternal.

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 rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

We gain freedom when we have paid full price for our right to live.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

Toeffectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the waywe perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to ourcommunication with others.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay, falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

When our hearts are empty, we collect things.

The more faithfully you listen to the voice withhin you, the batter you will hear what is sounding outside.And only he who listens can speak.

None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.