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.

Quote by Aleksander Solzhenitsyn

Topics: Power Quotes

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That...

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That...

Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This...

Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This...

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That...

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That...

This book is an agglomeration of lean-tos and annexes and there is no knowing how...

This book is an agglomeration of lean-tos and annexes and there is no knowing how...

Not in books only, nor yet in oral discourse, but often also in words there...

Not in books only, nor yet in oral discourse, but often also in words there...

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes...

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes...

Whenever books are burned, sooner or later men also are burned.

Whenever books are burned, sooner or later men also are burned.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he...

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he...

Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them...

Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them...

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side...

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side...

OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as...

OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as...

Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away...

Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away...

I have offered teachings and practices in 35 countries, and yet in Vietnam, my books...

I have offered teachings and practices in 35 countries, and yet in Vietnam, my books...

Books, the children of the brain.

Books, the children of the brain.

Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.

Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.

My books are the books that I am, the confused man, the negligent man, the...

My books are the books that I am, the confused man, the negligent man, the...

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into...

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into...

Joey: Beth is really sick, I don't think they can do anything for her. Rachel:...

Joey: Beth is really sick, I don't think they can do anything for her. Rachel:...

If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because...

If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because...

Only one hour in a day is more pleasurable than the hour spent in bed...

Only one hour in a day is more pleasurable than the hour spent in bed...