If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one…

It is not the mediocrity of women's education which makes their weakness; it is their weakness which necessarily causes their mediocrity.

— Joseph de Maistre

“It wasn't a weakness to have those thoughts, to feel that need to help another, to save lives. It made one human.”

— Alexandra Bracken

“...For that matter, men are perhaps indifferent to power… What fascinates them in this idea, you see, is not real power, it's the illusion…

— André Malraux

Monopoly power is an illusion in any system in which free competition is allowed.

— John Pugsley

“Power could be an illusion of perception. Even within yourself.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace.”

— Max Allan Collins

“Power is an illusion of perception.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“Men have the illusion of power; women have the power of illusion.”

— Tayo Emmanuel

“Power was an illusion of perception, as Jasnah had said. The first step to being in control was to see yourself as capable of…

— Brandon Sanderson

Without illusions. I love you because you are fallible and because your poor misguided testosterone-corrupted brain has you doing cartwheels trying not to be.…

— Cindy Gerard

Knowing does not always allow us to prevent, but at least the things that we know, we hold them, if not in our hands,…

— Marcel Proust

The fog of illusion, the fog of confusion is hanging all over the world.

— Van Morrison

Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of love, the…

— Frederick Lenz

Even mud gives the illusion of depth.

— Marshall McLuhan

A garden has a curious innocent way of consuming cash while all the time you are under the illusion that you are spending nothing.

— Esther Meynell