“What happened when people who’d once possessed absolute power suddenly lost it?”
Source: The Broken Kingdoms (2011), Chapter 8 “Light Reveals” (encaustic on canvas) (p. 170)
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“every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer…”
Variant: He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer.
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And we missed it, lost it forever.”
Youth and Art, xvii.
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“I keep thinking what happens when the power of love is twisted into the love of power.”
Masters and Slaves: The Tragedy of Jonestown http://www.ideajournal.com/articles.php?id=7, Fanita English, M.S.W., September 1, 1996 Vol.1, no.2, Idea, ISSN 1532-1712
Change the World Without Taking Power (2002)