The fundamental concept

The fundamental concept
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
  

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Don't wrestlea pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.
Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can get information upon it.
The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.
When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.
The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.
To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.
What dowe live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.
Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.
Takeadvantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think aboutwhat else it might be.
The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
In lifeprepare for the hard and all you will encounter will be the required or easy.
The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.