Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

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.

The hand of liberty is stronger than arms of power.

The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.

We arethe prisoners of ideas.

It is not the whip that makes man, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.

Angels fly, because they take themselves lightly.

Inbusiness, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.

The property of power is to protect.

Thehardest step is over the threshold.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits