Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. but business also corrupts and undermines monolithic totalitarianism. Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment.
We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never really happened to us.
There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.
There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias for simple solutionsto cut the knot rather than unravel it, the viewing of compromise as surrender. Both absolute power and absolute faith are instruments of dehumanization. Hence, absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
The nature of society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow-by the tilt of the social landscape.
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
We feel free when we escape -- even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.
In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.