It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for to them everything is possible.

Liberation is not deliverance.

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.

People who do not believe in miracles are not realist.

Reformers are those who educate people to appreciate the things they need.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Opportunists take now for an answer.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

Creation is only the projection into form of that which already exists.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.