Famous quotes containing the words power and/or prism:
“To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)
“Neither can I do anything to please critics belonging to the good old school of “projected biography,” who examine an author’s work, which they do not understand, through the prism of his life, which they do not know.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)