Power Dissipation

Famous quotes containing the words power and/or dissipation:

“What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.”
—Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914)

“But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)