People In Power Quotes

“We cannot live our lives afraid of those who confuse brutality with power. If we do, we only prove them right.”
― Margaux Deroux, The Lost Diary of Venice

“Although Zilpha Elaw sought to save souls, not necessarily to reform society, she did suffuse her narrative with running commentary on the racism and sexism that deeply permeated her era [The Second Great Awakening]. She wrote of whites "who readily sacrifice their intelligence to their prejudices," and of "men whose whimas are law" in tne church.”
― Michael Farquhar, A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans: Pirates, Skinflints, Patriots, and Other Colorful Characters Stuck in the Footnotes of History

“I have been blacklisted. Servants are routinely blacklisted when their services come to an end, even when they have done nothing to deserve it, except working their fingers to the breaking point each day, coming in early, leaving late, cleaning up other people's messes,”
― Stacey Lee, The Downstairs Girl

“He's a bastard.'

My shoulders shook with laughter. 'I'm pretty sure all of those who are in power are bastards.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Fall of Ruin and Wrath