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"If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
"In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state."
"All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours."
"Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force."
"We're all as susceptible to the lure of power."
"A wolf can only mock a lion thousands of miles away."
Explore more quotes by Virginia Woolf
"I'll be blasted', he said, 'if I ever write another word, or try to write another word, to please Nick Greene or the Muse. Bad, good, or indifferent, I'll write, from this day forward, to please myself."
"Among the tortures and devastations of life is this then-our friends are not able to finish their stories."
"And the supreme mystery was simply this: here was one room; there another. Did religion solve that, or love?"
"I do not believe that gifts, whether of mind or character, can be weighed like sugar and butter."
"Anyone who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm."
"He felt himself now, as he had often fancied other people, adrift on the stream, and far removed from control of it, a man with no grasp upon circumstances any longer. Old battered man loafing at the doors of public-houses now seemed to be his fellows, and he felt, as he supposed them to feel, a mingling of envy and hatred towards those who passed quickly and certainly to a goal of their own. They, too, saw things very thin and shadowy, and were wafted about by the lightest breath of wind. For the substantial world, with its prospect of avenues leading on and on to the invisible distance, had slipped from him."
"Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics."
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