„It was lovely, and tempting, to exert power over men and to shine before others, but power also had its perditions and perils.“

— Hermann Hesse

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„The power you have over someone who loves you is greater than any other power you'll ever have.“
— Paullina Simons
„What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.“
— Jr.
„We must discover the power of love, the power, the redemptive power of love. And when we discover that we will be able to make of this old world a new world. We will be able to make men better. Love is the only way.“
— Jr.
„Translation: Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.“
— C.G. Jung