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"A wolf can only mock a lion thousands of miles away."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Power, Wolf, Lion, Mockery

"Think you're a slave and you'll find a master, think you're a master and slaves will find you."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Power, Master, Control, Freedom

"Only when the lion is out of sight can you raise your fist at him."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Power, Fear, Courage, Caution

"Your mind is a weapon. Your heart is an asset. Your soul is a treasure. Your life is a jewel."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Power, Mind, Heart, Soul, Life

"The kind of gospel that our churches are preaching sometimes are not powerful enough to change the very street where these churches are located talk less of the nation where they are."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Power, Gospel, Church, Change

"The Librarians control the information... They control what gets read, what gets seen, and what gets learned. Because of that they have power."

Brandon Sanderson, American Author

Power, Knowledge, Control, Books

"Money, Gun and Lie can solve almost all the problems."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

Power, Money, Lie, Problem, Life

"Most powerful is he who never cared for power."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Power, Care, Never, Most

"We must dilute and disperse all forms of concentrated power that refuse to be accountable to majority wishes."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Power, Truth, Regret, Wisdom

"This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Power, Being, Miracles

Explore more quotes by William Gaddis

"We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are."

Time

"There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work."

Reading

"Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance."

Ignorance

"Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law."

Justice

"What is it they want from the man that they didn't get from the work? What do they expect? What is there left when he's done with his work, what's any artist but the dregs of his work, the human shambles that follows it around?"

Work

"How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me."

Books

"He was the only person caught in the collapse, and afterward, most of his work was recovered too, and it is still spoken of, when it is noted, with high regard, though seldom played."

Work

"I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge."

Computer

"Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power."

Power