Power can be

Power can be
Power can be taken, but not given. The process of thetaking is empowerment in itself.
  

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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.
Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.
Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.
Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
Hear me,my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun nowstands, I will fight no more forever.
Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.
If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.
We gain freedom when we have paid full price for our right to live.
If you are standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.
The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.
Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.