“Nearly all men can stand ad­versity, but if you want to test a man’s char­ac­ter, give him power.” ⁠–⁠ Abraham Lincoln

“Power was an il­lu­sion of per­cep­tion. The first step to be­ing in con­trol was to see your­self as cap­able of be­ing in con­trol.” ⁠–⁠ Brandon Sanderson

“We man­u­fac­ture an­ger to give ourselves the il­lu­sion of power when we feel weak and help­less” ⁠–⁠ Sophie Hannah

“The prob­lem with equal­ity is there’s no up, and the prob­lem with no up is there’s no hope. And people live on hope” ⁠–⁠ Jordan Peterson

“Assume the per­son you are listen­ing to might know something you don’t” ⁠–⁠ Jordan Peterson

“Thinking I de­serve the dream but don’t de­serve the hurt­ing” ⁠–⁠ American Authors

“All polit­ical power is primar­ily an il­lu­sion. Illusion. Mirrors and blue smoke, beau­ti­ful blue smoke rolling over the sur­face of highly pol­ished mir­rors, first a thin veil of blue smoke, then a thick cloud that sud­denly dis­solves into wisps of blue smoke, the mir­rors catch­ing it all, boun­cing it back and forth” ⁠–⁠ Jimmy Breslin

“We’re liv­ing un­der the il­lu­sion that we have the power to de­term­ine what to do with it.” ⁠–⁠ Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

“If power was an il­lu­sion, was­n’t weak­ness ne­ces­sar­ily one also?” ⁠–⁠ Lois McMaster Bujold

“A great deal of in­tel­li­gence can be in­ves­ted in ig­nor­ance when the need for il­lu­sion is deep.” ⁠–⁠ Saul Bellow

“When you al­low your ego to con­trol your thoughts, everything you be­lieve be­comes an il­lu­sion” ⁠–⁠ Rusty Eric

“Reject your sense of in­jury and the in­jury it­self dis­ap­pears” ⁠–⁠ Marcus Aurelius

“Choice is an il­lu­sion, cre­ated between those with power, and those without” ⁠–⁠ Wachowski Brothers

“God’s plan is big­ger than your mis­takes” ⁠–⁠ Anonymous