Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quote

You can have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in you power. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

You can have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in you power.

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