The exercise of power is

The exercise of power is
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.
  

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If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.
Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.
Twoprisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on thewall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.
Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.
If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supportingyou; but if not, you have infinite power against you.
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.
Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh.
Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.
A merefriend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.
Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since atleast half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.
The warexisting between the senses and reason.