"Though under earth, and throneless now I..." - Quote by C S Lewis
Though under earth, and throneless now I be Yet while I lived all earth was under me.
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“I felt ashamed." "But of what? Psyche, they hadn't stripped you naked or anything?" "No, no, Maia. Ashamed of looking like a mortal -- of being a mortal." "But how could you help that?" "Don't you think the things people are most ashamed of are things they can't help?”
“I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.”
“It takes courage to live through suffering; and it takes honesty to observe it.”
More on Power
“My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it.”
“Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.”
“There is only one thing in this world, and that is to keep acquiring money and more money, power and more power. All the rest is meaningless.”
More on Authority
“Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.”
“NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he says is wrong. GIUSEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right.”
“Why these people who want to do so much good for everyone, who call themselves government and this and that, why them say you must not use the herb? You see, them say you must not use the herb because it makes you a rebel. Against what?”