Source: The Prince
“The best possible fortress is—not to be hated by the people.”
Variant: Variant translation: The best fortress which a prince can possess is the affection of his people.
Source: The Prince (1513), Ch. 20: 'Are fortresses, and many other things to which princes often resort advantageous or hurtful?'
About the fortress Igi-hursaja.
Correspondence of the Kings of Ur, Letter from Shulgi to Puzur-Shulgi about work on the fortress Igi-hursanga http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section3/tr3108.htm
“Theology, sir, is a fortress; no crack in a fortress may be accounted small.”
John Hale
The Crucible (1953)
I Am a Rock
Song lyrics, Sounds of Silence (1966)
Source: Hope on a Tightrope: Words and Wisdom (2008); also on "The Way I See It" Starbucks Coffee Cup #284
“You know your the best when people you don't know hate you.”
“Although you may tell lies, people will believe you, if only you speak with authority.”
Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)
“There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.”
Clive Foss, The Tyrants: 2500 Years of Absolute Power and Corruption, London: Quercus Publishing, 2006, ISBN 1905204965 , p. 131
Contemporary witnesses
Source: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
“You cannot save people, you can only love them.”
The Diary Of Anais Nin, Volume Two (1934-1939)
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)
