Power & Society Sayings

I have had this Dhamma edict written so that my sons and great-grandsons should not think of making new conquests.

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

The greatest fruit of self-sufficiency is freedom.

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

If a man is unhappy, this must be due to his own fault, that he does not understand that it is in his power to be happy.

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.

His ears made him look like a taxicab with both doors open.

The Japanese are a disease of the skin; the Communists are a disease of the heart.

I am a strange compound of weakness and resolution! All my feelings are on the tortured rack; but I will not be a fool, if I can help it.

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

The state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy.

I am not afraid that they will find bad governments, but that they will find governments that are not interested in the well-being of the people.

Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought.

Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.