Toggle navigation
Collections
Fun
Jokes
Fortune
Photo
Nicknames
Blog
ﻮﺑﻻگ
Iran
You Can Only Have Power Over People So Long As You Don't Take Everything Away From Them.
Home
›
Fortune Cookies
›
Miscellaneous Collections
You can 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.
-- Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The First Circle (1968)
Related:
We have the power to do anything we like. Absolute power over every particle in the universe, everything that has ever existed or ever will exist, as from this moment.
Are you listening to me, Romana?] Romana: Yes, of course I am....
Jacques: First, you must get to know your lane. Feel the slickness, feel the slippery finish.
Caresses it, experience it. Quite smooth, isn't it?...
When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large.
When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life. -- Geoffrey F. Abe...
Own only what you can always carry with you; know languages, know countries, know people.
Let your memory be your travel bag. -- Alexander Solzhenitsy...
Tony: I am afraid the time has come for you to pay us.
Krusty: Look, I'm cleaned out. Just take the Clown College....
Brodka: Hello, Mr. and Mrs. Simpson? This is detective Don Brodka from Try-N-Save security.
That's right, Don Brodka. Your son Bart has been caught shoplifting....
If A. can prove, however conclusively, that he may, of right enslave B, why may not B snatch the same argument, and prove equally, that he may enslave A.
You say A is white and B is black. It is color, the...
Responsibility: Everyone says that having power is a great responsibility.
This is a lot of bunk. Responsibility is when someone can blame you if something goes wrong....
And don't tell me God works in mysterious ways, Yossarian continued There's nothing mysterious about it, He's not working at all.
He's playing. Or else He's forgotten all about us....