"The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life." ― Thomas Mann Topic(s): Power Tags: religious More From Thomas Mann "It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive." "Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent." "For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph." More In Power "Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have."― Oprah Winfrey "Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never."― Samuel Taylor Coleridge "If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!"― Marie de France