Profession/power

Famous quotes containing the words profession and/or power:

“install me in any profession
Save this damn’d profession of writing,
where one needs one’s brains all the time.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

“It is better to have the power of self-protection than to depend on any man, whether he be the Governor in his chair of State, or the hunted outlaw wandering through the night, hungry and cold and with murder in his heart.”
—Lillie Devereux Blake (1835–1913)