“You can't give power away and keep it simultaneously. Except posthumously.”
Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga
Vorkosigan Saga, Cetaganda (1996)
Source: Lady Chatterley's Lover
“You can't give power away and keep it simultaneously. Except posthumously.”
Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga
Vorkosigan Saga, Cetaganda (1996)
Winston S. Churchill book The Second World War
The Second World War (1939–1945)
Source: Broadcast (21 March 1943), quoted in The Times (22 March 1943), p. 6
Edward Snowden (1983) American whistleblower and former National Security Agency contractor
Edward Snowden, NSA files source: 'If they want to get you, in time they will' http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/09/nsa-whistleblower-edward-snowden-why, The Guardian, 10 June 2013.
“You can't make rules for the exceptional.”
Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology
Other
Andrew Tobias (1947) American journalist
Source: The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know (1982), Chapter 9, Too Much Insurance, p. 155.
“You can't spend so much time in a place and not carry a bit of it inside you.”
Frank Beddor book The Looking Glass Wars
Source: The Looking Glass Wars
Owen Wilson (1968) American actor and screenwriter
On working with monkeys, in an Artist on Artist interview on MySpace (26 October 2007) http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=20862626.