Real swaraj will come not by the acquisition of authority by a few but by the acquisition of capacity by all to resist authority when it is abused

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

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.

He whocannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

Weagree completely on everything, including the fact we don't see eye to eye.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.