Buyingis cheaper than asking.

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.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Ifyou wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

Only few men think, but all have opinions.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

The majority of mankind always has been and always will be composed of imbeciles.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

It is mark of a good man not to know how to do an injury.