You only have power over people so long …

You only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything he’s no longer in your power — he’s free again.

Quote, saying and phrase by: Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

You never see animals going through the …

You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but now, as yet, intelligent enough.

Quote, saying and phrase by: Aldous Huxley