"You only have power over people so 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."

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Source : The First Circle ch. 17 (1968)

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#Life Quotes #Power Quotes #Men Quotes

“There are many ways of seeing the world. You can hang upside down from a meteor, volunteer to be the fourth stage of a three-stage rocket, or simply get in a balloon and keep going. But if it's sheer, unadulterated discomfort you're looking for, just stay on land.”

Source : "Michael Palin: Around the World in 80 Days". Documentary, 1989.
“There's really no way to break that chain - other than winning the lottery. There's no realistic way to end generational poverty other than to actually educate people so that they can get the jobs, so that people can be self-sufficient. And to be self-sufficient around careers - not just jobs, but careers.”
“Actors are good liars; writers are good liars with good memories.”
“The point is to strip down, get protestant, then even more naked. Walk over scorched bricks to find your own soul. Your heart a searching dog in the rubble.”

Source : Barry Hannah (2010). “Long, Last, Happy: New and Collected Stories”, p.398, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“Patriotism depends as much on mutual suffering as on mutual success; and it is by that experience of all fortunes and all feelings that a great national character is created.”
“Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long.”
“As if finding a guy to solve your problems isn't a contradiction of terms.”
“A goal casually set and lightly taken is freely abandoned at the first obstacle.”

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