Famous quotes containing the words phoenix and/or power:
“And there’s a score of duchesses, surpassing womankind,
Or who have found a painter to make them so for pay
And smooth out stain and blemish with the elegance of his mind:
I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)