Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

Liberty and democracy becomes unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

Beforeeverything else, getting ready is the secret to success.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character

Liberation is not deliverance.

Melancholy is the joy of being said.

Man alone contains within himself as many species as exist on earth.

Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-voilent structure of society.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

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.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to