"Foreword".
The Anarchist Cookbook (1971)
“Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.”
Think and Grow Rich (1938) p. 173
“You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true.”
Variant: You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Quoted in Elizabeth Abbott, Haiti: An insider's history of the rise and fall of the Duvaliers (1988), p. 112.
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Variant: You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
“It seems that thought itself has a power for which it has never been given credit.”
Source: Frankenstein's Castle (1980), p. 16
Source: Evolution (2002), Chapter 11 “Mother’s People” section IV (p. 367)
“Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.”
Letter from Johnson to John Taylor, 18 August 1763. The Yale Book of Quotations edited by Fred R. Shapiro, pg 400.
"Wage Slaves vs Corporations" (1905)
