Knowledge leads to unity, ignorance to diversity.

The property of power is to protect.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those who are immovable; those who are movable; and those who move.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

What dowe live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

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.

Do not tell me the problem is a difficult one. If it were not difficult, it would not be a problem

Mirrors should be able to think before reflecting the images.

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.

True youth is a quality which is acquired only with age.

Be your own judge and you will be happy.