It is a good reader that makes a good book.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

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

The hardeststep is over the threshold.

There isnothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than anagreement.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

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.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

There'sno point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

The amount of effort put into a campaign by a worker expands in proportion to the personal benefits that he will derive from his party's victory.

One person with a belief is a social power equal to nintynine who have only interest.

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.