Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.

Theres another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevsky said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution.

In a fight almost anything goes. It almost reaches the point where you stop to apologize if a chance blow lands above the belt.

The third rule of ethics of means and ends is that in war the end justifies almost any means.

Change means movement. Movement means friction.

Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.