To an imagination of any scope the most far reaching form of power is not money, it is the command of ideas

Pretty much all law consists in forbidding men to do something that they want to do.

Men are tattooed with their special beliefs like so many South Sea Islanders; but a real human heart with divine love in it beats with the same glow under all the patterns of all earth's thousand tribes.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.

The noblest service comes from nameless hands; and the best servant does his work unseen.

Deep-seated preferences cannot be argued about - you cannot argue a man into liking a glass of beer.

Certitude leads to violence. This is a proposition that has an easy application and a difficult one. The easy application is to ideoologues, dogmatists, and bullies--people who think that their rigtness justifies them in imposing on anyone who does not happen to suscribe to their particular ideology, dogma or notion of turf. If the conviction of rightness is powerful enough, resistance to it will be met, sooner or later by force. There are people like this in every sphere of life, and it is natural to feel that the world would be a better place without them!