Then sudden Felagund there swaying
Sang in answer a song of staying,
Resisting, battling against power,
Of secrets kept, strength like a tower,
And trust unbroken, freedom, escape;
Of changing and of shifting shape,
Of snares eluded, broken traps,
The prison opening, the chain that snaps.
Tag: power freedom magic escape
Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.
Dietrich BonhoefferTag: politics power responsibility
Peter stood back up. 'Well, that was a perfectly useless conversation,' he said with a sigh. Now, there is a wonderful thing in this world called 'foresight.' It is a gift treasured above all others because it allows one to know what the future holds. most people with foresight end up wielding immense power in life, often becoming great rulers or librarians.
Jonathan AuxierTag: power foresight librarian great-rulers
The real satanist is not quite so easily recognized as such
Anton Szandor LaVeySatan has certainly been the best friend the church has ever had, as he has kept it in business all these years.
Anton Szandor LaVeyGovernments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
Cory DoctorowTag: happiness power government constitution new destructive
Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it as it is to its victims—the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates.
Paul HoffmanTag: power strong god force victim tomas paul crush left hand intoxicating cale hoffman brake materazzi pitiless vipond
...Again she did not seem to hear, still looking into Cale’s eyes. Then slowly, hopelessly, she dropped her gaze.
“I understand,” she said.
It was that, of course, that pierced him as if she had stabbed him through the heart. To him it was the sound of lost faith and it was unendurable. He felt he’d become a kind of god in her eyes, and it was simply impossible to give up her adoration.
Tag: pain love power god soul heart hope eyes impossible adoration understand divine give-up left hand hear endurable hopelessly unendurable
It is strange how love is a source for power––can spur the desire to fight to the death, or to fight back from something that seems like death for long enough to write a coherent note––but also of weakness.
Beth FantaskeyNo power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
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