“When power is gone the memory of power lingers.”

“There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.”

“Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.”

“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting”

“Power is no linger seen as inheriting its legitimacy from some divine authority; it is a mere convention which we adhere to because we are born and educated into it, and because we see others conform to it. Its strength lies in the fact that we believe that others believe in it: power is no more than the illusion of power. The exercise of power is a constant fight to keep up appearances.”

“A powerful judicial system is our protection Gone are the days when easy to carry out a coup d’état. Only a powerful judicial system is our protection from all abuses and mishandling of any issue, including the politics or economics of the country.”

“We press the enemy backward with memories, with the power of history, with scenes of sense and order.”

“Of course I’ve gone mad with power! Have you ever tried going mad without power? It’s boring and no one listens to you!
— Russ Cargill”

“Pay is about the power we forfeit to get the power of pay. For example, we forfeit power when we work for others, not ourselves, but we get the power of the paycheck when we do that.”

“This, in fact, is the power of the imagination, which, combining the memory of gold with that of the mountain, can compose the idea of a golden mountain.”