"The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed." ― Mason Cooley Topic(s): Power More From Mason Cooley "Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does." "To understand someone, find out how he spends his money." "At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly." More In Power "Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size."― Virginia Woolf "Calmness is the cradle of power."― J. G. Holland "After believing in promises made and never fulfilled by Labour, people have become increasingly disenchanted with the process assuming that all politicians will say anything to gain power, and then never follow through."― Adam Rickitt