“People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much to hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.”— Edmund Burke, en.wikiquote.org
“Just FYI, if you’re ever working in the movie business, and someone says ‘welcome to Hollywood’ to you, that person is truly the worst.”— Liz Meriwether, thecut.com
“I had never imagined myself as the kind of woman who stayed quiet in these situations.”— Liz Meriwether, thecut.com
“Well is it said that neither love nor power Admit a rival, even for an hour.”— Geoffrey Chaucer, amazon.com
“I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty… you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. They really can.”— J. D. Salinger, amazon.com
“The most hateful grief of all human griefs is this, to have knowledge of the truth but no power over the event.”— Herodotus, amazon.com
“Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.”— Herodotus, amazon.com
“Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We've seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse.”— Alan Moore, amazon.com
“I looked up at the sky; the pure, wonderful stars were still there, burning.”— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com
“You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power—he's free again.”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, goodreads.com
“Power is a poison well known for thousands of years. If only no one were ever to acquire material power over others! But to the human being who has faith in some force that holds dominion over all of us, and who is therefore conscious of his own limitations, power is not necessarily fatal. For those…”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, archive.org
“Oh, how hard it is to part with power! This one has to understand.”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, archive.org
“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, archive.org
“We rode on the winds of the rising storm, We ran to the sounds of the thunder. We danced among the lightning bolts, and tore the world asunder.”— Robert Jordan, amazon.com
“Laura felt a warmth inside her. It was very small, but it was strong. It was steady, like a tiny light in the dark, and it burned very low but no winds could make it flicker because it would not give up.”— Laura Ingalls Wilder, amazon.com
“I just had dinner at a Chinese-German fusion restaurant a couple of hours ago. The food was great but now I'm hungry for power.”— Smith-Corona, reddit.com